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Like her, readers can be helped to work through their own sorrow and distress. Writing these books has been a way for her to find the joy in her life, even while grieving or unhappy. From the first days that she captured our hearts with Because of Winn-Dixie in 2000, to the magic she brought us in 2013 in Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, she has always been able to juxtapose humor and joy while balancing hard topics such as death, loss, and separation, as in The Tiger Rising, The Tale of Despereaux, and The Magician’s Elephant. Kate DiCamillo is one of the most celebrated children’s authors of our time. Check out her site, The Authors Among Us, for more! Grace has recently interviewed Rainbow Rowell, Gregory Maguire, Andrea Davis-Pinkney and Littsburgh’s Nick Courage. Littsburgh is thrilled to be able to share with you an interview with Kate DiCamillo (two time Newbery Award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature) by the youngest member of our literary roster, eleven-year-old Grace Randall.
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