Tag: book
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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!…
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February 20, 2024
“Every good story is a love story.” Two weeks from today, Ferris’ love story will be out in the world. In the meantime, I’ll be walking around the neighborhood putting copies into Little Free Libraries. “What is it that you want readers to take away from this book?” someone recently asked me. This: I want…
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November 14, 2023
Yesterday afternoon, I walked past two children. They were maybe 8 or 9 years old. Kid #1: I love that book. Kid#2: So do I!!! I love that book so much. Kid #1 and Kid #2 then joined hands and (truly) jumped up and down, celebrating their mutual love of a book. After a lot…
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October 24, 2023
In the airport last weekend: I was sitting and reading a book (an advance copy of a novel entitled Sandwich by Catherine Newman) and I kept laughing out loud. The woman sitting next to me said, “It must be a great book if it can make you laugh like that.” I said, “It’s wonderful. It…
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October 10, 2023
“The king and the wolf and the girl and the boy and the owl were puppets, and they were waiting for a story to begin . . .” I’ll be putting The Puppets of Spelhorst into Little Free Libraries today. The king and the wolf and the girl and the boy and the owl are…
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September 19, 2023
Thank you all for continuing to read and share this book for the last twenty years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/kate-dicamillo…/ Reactions: 2.4K Comments: 183 Original Post