Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Kate DiCamillo and illustrator Sophie Blackall will headline the Saratoga Book Festival October 4. (Saratoga Book Festival) ...

Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 4 to 8. By The New York Times Books Staff As Kate DiCamillo’s beloved novel celebrates a big milestone, Holly Goldberg Sloan’s “Finding Lost” echoes ...

When readers discuss the 25-year-old “Because of Winn-Dixie,” it’s like they’re talking about a book that came out yesterday. In a way, it’s as if it did, since most of them have read the book over ...

Of the title character in “Lost Evangeline,” it is said she “lived a great life of the imagination.” You could say the same about Evangeline’s creator, Kate DiCamillo. The beloved, Minneapolis-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The book that launched Kate DiCamillo's career, "Because of Winn-Dixie," turns 25 this fall. The beloved Minnesota author talked with Big Books and Bold Ideas host Kerri Miller about how this book — ...

Kate DiCamillo is on a roll. Twenty-five years after she burst onto the children’s publishing scene with Because of Winn-Dixie, DiCamillo is marking that milestone with the release on September 30 of ...