Three winters in a row, Kate DiCamillo went into the hospital, never sure if she would come home and always a little scared to do so. One of those winters, when she was four years old and the air ...

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Two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo's latest, "The Hotel Balzaar," is her third book of the year. And it may be the Minneapolis writer's best book yet.

I am 100% certain Kate DiCamillo knows that owls eat rats and that’s one of the reasons I love her second “Orris and Timble” book, about an owl and a rat who are friends. The new one ...

Children’s writer Kate DiCamillo is known for beloved stories like ‘The Tale of Despereaux’ and ‘Because of Winn-Dixie’ that are about kids and animals trying to navig… ...

“The book” refers to Ferris, DiCamillo’s new middle grade novel, forthcoming from Candlewick Press next spring. The cover, shared exclusively with PEOPLE, features an illustration by Ryan ...

Kate DiCamillo is at her funniest in ages, perhaps ever, in the tender and cheering pages of “Ferris,” a novel that gets its title from the fairground birthplace, and now nickname, of its 10 ...

Children’s author Kate DiCamillo, known for “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Because of Winn-Dixie,” has a new book debuting this week called “Ferris.”.

If Kate DiCamillo wrote a book about a box of Swiffer refills, it would probably make us chortle and sob about lint. The beloved Minneapolis author imagines many things beautifully — the hopes ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Children’s writer Kate DiCamillo is known for beloved stories like “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Because of Winn-Dixie,” about kids and animals trying to navigate the ...