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Kate DiCamillo


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Kate DiCamillo spent most of her childhood in the South, and moved to Minnesota when she was in her twenties. She was inspired to write Because of Winn-Dixie, her first novel, during a bout of homesickness one brutally cold winter. The book was an immediate success: it is a Newbery Honor Book, has won more than twenty-five state awards, and has been made into a popular family film. Kate DiCamillo’s subsequent books include the Newbery Medal-winning The Tales of Desperaux, The Tiger Rising, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and The Magician’s Elephant. She lives in Minneapolis.
 

Awards: Newbery (2014)  see all

Genres: Children's Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
September 2025

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Lost Evangeline
(Norendy Tales, book 3)
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Books containing stories by Kate DiCamillo
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The Best Short Stories 2024 (2024)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Amor Towles
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The Creativity Project (2018)
An Awesometastic Story Collection
edited by
Colby Sharp

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Awards
2014 Newbery Medal : Flora and Ulysses
2014 Indie Book Award for Children's Fiction : Flora and Ulysses
2004 Newbery Medal : The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, And a Spool of Thread

Award nominations
2025 Libby Award for Best Middle Grade Book (nominee) : Ferris
2023 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (nominee) : The Beatryce Prophecy
2001 Newbery Medal (nominee) : Because of Winn-Dixie


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