Her second novel, The Tiger Rising, went on to become a National Book Award Finalist. "After the Newbery committee called me, I spent the whole day walking into walls," she says. After moving to Minnesota from Florida in her twenties, homesickness and a bitter winter helped inspire Because of Winn-Dixie - her first published novel, which, remarkably, became a runaway bestseller and snapped up a Newbery Honor. Kate DiCamillo's own journey is something of a dream come true. Together, we see one another.” Born in Philadelphia, the author lives in Minneapolis, where she faithfully writes two pages a day, five days a week. Kate DiCamillo, the newly named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2014–2015, says about stories, “When we read together, we connect.
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