The Birthday of DiCamillo
Cover of our Butterfly-in-Chief’s hardcover edition of The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering.
Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Kate DiCamillo, beloved children’s author!
Kate was born on March 25, 1964. She writes children’s books for all reading levels including picture books, chapter books, and middle grade. She has won two Newbery Medals, one for The Tale of Desperaux (2003) and one for Flora and Ulysses (2013).
I fell in love with Kate’s writing when I read The Tale of Desperaux. I will never forget that scrappy yet tender and ambitious little mouse. She writes without talking down to young readers and while some of her characters have very hard lives, there is a strong resonance of hope holding the characters up.
Her books are also great reads for adults and will give you all the feels! I admit to crying while reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – it is The Velveteen Rabbit times a billion for middle graders.
I hope to read many more novels by Kate <3
– Stacey
Find a copy of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane at your local Canadian indie bookseller!
Or perhaps you'd rather The Tale of Despereaux?
Cover of our Butterfly-in-Chief’s hardcover edition of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.
Our Head Alien’s CD edition of the audiobook of The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo and read by Graeme Malcolm.
“In my day, Audible was called CDs! Which is short for ‘compact disc’! We’d slide these into the slot of CD players that would make this whirring noise then start reading to us…”