作者介紹
作者介紹 Kate DiCamilloWhen Kate was almost thirty years old, she had what she calls ""a small epiphany: if I wanted to tell stories, I was going to have to do the hard work of sitting down and writing them. I started to write. For six years I wrote and wrote and wrote. And most of what I wrote was bad. But here is the beautiful thing about doing something every day; you are bound to get better. And this is true, even for someone as dense as me."" When Kate was thirty-five years old, she sold her first short story, This is Me, Lona Bretweiser, Leaving the Amusement Park of Love. That same year, she sold her first novel, Because of Winn-Dixie. ""Now,"" Kate says, ""I feel as if I have been extraordinarily blessed; I tell stories for a living."" Kate’s The Tale of Despereaux won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 2004, and she won the honour again ten years later with Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. Later books include the New York Times number one bestseller The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.