Tag: squirrel
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May 10, 2023
I had a fantastic time meeting readers of all ages last week at the Barnes and Noble in Maple Grove, Minnesota. One of my favorite moments was when an 8 year old boy stood in front of me and shouted: “He will defend the defenseless! He will protect the weak! He will write a poem!”…
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February 17, 2021
In 2012, the year before Flora and Ulysses was published, a friend and I were driving from Austin to Houston when suddenly a giant squirrel appeared on the side of the road. Squirrels had loomed large in my imagination for so long that I almost thought what I was seeing wasn’t real. But there he…
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December 29, 2020
Disney’s movie of Flora and Ulysses will stream on February 19th. In the meantime, I’ll be walking around the neighborhood putting copies of the movie tie-in book into Little Free Libraries. Getting the story of a superhero squirrel and a (not-all-that) cynical girl out into the world seems like a good way to usher out…
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January 4, 2018
“Dear Kate DiCamillo, We had to pick a book and read it and then write a letter to the author, and I am writing to you because I read your book about the squirrel who writes poetry, and I thought it was boring in places and very funny in others and what I like best…
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March 1, 2016
I’ve written a book about a mouse and a book about a squirrel. But the rodent I probably have the most affinity for is the chipmunk. I feel like a chipmunk a lot of the time—small, skittery, worried, hopeful. Three months or so ago, a friend got me a sign that says CHIPMUNKS. Here’s a…
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March 12, 2015
I have a friend who heard a cooing noise coming from her fireplace and thought that a pigeon was trapped in the chimney. She called a wild animal removal service. It turned out that the pigeon was, in fact, a squirrel. The man from the wild animal removal service put on gloves and caught the…