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Review of The Hotel Balzaar
The Hotel Balzaar [Norendy Tales]by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Júlia SardàIntermediate Candlewick 160 pp.10/24 9781536223316 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536240122 $17.99In this second volume in DiCamillo’s projected trio of novellas (beginning with The Puppets of Spelhorst, rev. 9/23), Marta lives in the attic of a grand hotel where her mother works as...
Review of Orris and Timble: The Beginning
Orris and Timble: The Beginning by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Carmen Mok Primary Candlewick 80 pp. 4/24 9781536222791 $16.99 e-book ed. 9781536237191 $16.99 Orris the rat lives a quiet, reclusive life nestled in the wall of an abandoned barn. He papers his hideaway with stories from discarded books, tends to...
Review of Ferris
Ferris by Kate DiCamilloIntermediate Candlewick 240 pp.3/24 9781536231052 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536237375 $18.99Returning to her literary roots in Florida (see: Because of Winn-Dixie, rev. 7/00; Raymie Nightingale, rev. 3/16), DiCamillo again explores bonds of family, friends, and community. Ferris Winkey finds the summer before fifth grade a puzzling one. Much turbulence...
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...
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