Stories. Hope. Light. Love.
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April 15, 2024
What is it that makes a friendship? Why are we sometimes inexplicably drawn to someone else? Orris and Timble is the story of a rat and an owl who (against all odds) become friends. It pleases me that Candlewick Press has made these little magnets for the rat and the owl—they seem, to me, a…
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April 8, 2024
On a walk a few days, a kid called out to me: “Hey, my mom and I read that book about the big lamp.” “Big lamp?” I said. “You know, the big lamp that hangs over the table.” “Oh,” I said. “You read Ferris. You mean chandelier.” “What?” he said. “Chandelier,” I said. “That’s the…
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March 25, 2024
I was a kid who loved to read, but I didn’t dream of becoming a writer. Books seemed so magical to me that I couldn’t conceive that human beings wrote them. For my 60th birthday, my friend Ann (who is also a writer) gave me the gift of a signed school library copy of E.B.…
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March 20, 2024
“What’s it feel like to know all these people read your books?” A ten-year old asked me that question when I was signing books at the Tucson Festival of Books. I looked at her and said, “It’s unbelievable. I don’t have words for it.” “Okay,” she said. “Well, maybe if you work on it, you…
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March 14, 2024
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March 5, 2024
I was out walking Ramona yesterday, when a young child came out of the house and shouted, “Kate! What is your new book about?” “Um,” I said. “Let’s see. Ghosts. Raccoons. Ferris wheels. Grandmothers. And chandeliers.” “Okay,” said the kid. “I’ll read it.” “Great. Thank you,” I said. When I got home, I thought: wait!…