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Review of The Puppets of Spelhorst
The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Julie MorstadIntermediate Candlewick 160 pp.10/23 9781536216752 $17.99An aged sea captain dies, leaving a chest containing five puppets. After some trials and adventures, the puppets—boy, girl, king, owl, and wolf—end up in the grand home of a pair of sisters and fulfill...
Review of A Very Mercy Christmas
A Very Mercy Christmas [Mercy Watson] by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Chris Van Dusen Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 9/22 978-1-5362-1360-7 $18.99 In this Mercy Watson picture-book spinoff, young Stella Endicott is feeling the Christmas spirit. She asks her neighbors to go caroling, but all the humans are either...
After the Call: Impossible, Wonderful Things
DiCamillo with current Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden at the banquet, 2004. Photo courtesy of the American Library Association Archives. I grew up on a dead-end street in a small town in central Florida. In the summertime, I went everywhere barefoot, and my feet were so callused that I...
Review of The Beatryce Prophecy
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Sophie Blackall Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 256 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5362-1361-4 $19.99 As this rich and absorbing novel opens, Brother Edik finds a sick girl in the barn of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, curled up with the “demon goat”...
Five questions for Kate DiCamillo
Fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale will remember Louisiana Elefante as the perceptive friend (and orphaned daughter of trapeze artists) who reassures the others: “We’ll rescue each other.” In companion book Louisiana’s Way Home (both Candlewick, 8–11 years), it seems that Louisiana may need rescuing — from the “care” of...
Review of Louisiana's Way Home
Louisiana’s Way Homeby Kate DiCamilloIntermediate Candlewick 230 pp. g10/18 978-0-7636-9463-0 $16.99Readers first met Louisiana Elefante in Raymie Nightingale (rev. 3/16) as the orphaned daughter of famous trapeze artists and as one of the Three Rancheros, a steadfast trio of young friends who vowed to always have one another’s backs. In...
Kate DiCamillo gives a lecture, answers a billion questions from kids, and signs until the cows come home
If you've never been to a Kate DiCamillo author event, you may have never experienced anything like it. Rock star, schmock star — the immediate past National Ambassador for Young People's Literature is her own brand of celebrity, beloved by children everywhere, not least the approximately one billion who attended...
CPL first annual Margret and H. A. Rey Curious George Lecture Series
Former Horn Booker Zoe Del Mar, communications manager for the Cambridge, MA, Public Library, just let us know about a great new lecture series the library is hosting: the Margret and H. A. Rey Curious George Lecture Series. The series was "developed from a brainstorming session between Youth Services Manager,...
Review of Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?
Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?
[Tales from Deckawoo Drive]by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Chris Van DusenPrimary Candlewick 101 pp.8/16 978-0-7636-7311-6 $14.99 gDiCamillo continues the relay of Tales from Deckawoo Drive, as minor characters from previous books (Leroy Ninker Saddles Up, rev. 9/14; Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Racoon, rev....
An Interview with Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo served as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature from January 2014 to December 2015 and was this year’s National Summer Reading Champion. This past spring, Horn Book editors Elissa Gershowitz and Martha V. Parravano shared breakfast with the two-time Newbery Medalist (for Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures...
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