She’s also written 13 chapter books, including the Bink & Gollie series with Alison McGhee, another about toast-loving pig Mercy Watson, and Tales From Deckawoo Drive. “The Beatryce Prophecy” aimed at middle-grade readers, is her 10th novel. Those characters, who live in medieval times, include a girl who breaks the law by knowing how to read, a timid monk, and a loyal but fierce goat, one of DiCamllo’s most endearing characters.ĭiCamillo, who is always fun to talk with, is one of the nation’s most popular children’s writers (although she insists her books are for all ages) with a total of 37 million copies in print worldwide. It’s about getting out of my own way and following these characters I care about.” “How those three words led to ‘The Beatryce Prophecy,’ I have no idea,” DiCamillo said with a laugh during a phone conversation from her Minneapolis home. Kate DiCamillo had only three words in her mind when she began her luminous new novel - monk, moon and goat. The prophecy states that this child will be a girl. “It is written in the Chronicles of Sorrowing
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