Tag: ferris
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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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August 15, 2017
August “hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn.” –Natalie Babbit, Tuck Everlasting.…