When Newberry Award-winning author Kate DiCamillo and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Sophie Blackall get together, you can feel the creative energy flowing between them. It's like they've tapped ...

It was the late 1990s, and Kate DiCamillo was discouraged about ever having a writing career. Working as a “book picker” fulfilling orders at the Bookmen distribution company in Minneapolis, she had ...

New magical stories from Kate DiCamillo and two young adult novels about struggling teens, as well as wisdom about losing vision. It’s a good day for Minnesota books. (Courtesy of Candlewick Press) ...

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, “Orris and ...

A screening of “Because of Winn-Dixie” Tuesday night played to more than 100 teachers and librarians, dozens of children, the winner of two Newbery Medals and a Picardy shepherd named Lady. The dog ...

As Kate DiCamillo’s beloved novel celebrates a big milestone, Holly Goldberg Sloan’s “Finding Lost” echoes its themes. By Jennifer Howard Jennifer Howard is a writer and editor who lives in Washington ...