Kate DiCamillo

I can’t make any of the sessions at the Sydney Writers’ Festival this year but if I could, it would be this one. May22 Children’s Literature for Adults. Visiting international publishers Sara Odedina and John McLay are joined by acclaimed fiction writer Margo Lanagan to discuss the increasing adult market for children’s books. To find…

I really like animal stories and it seems there are more around lately after years of being the ‘no go’ subject. As an aspiring writer I lost count of how many times I was advised ‘No animal stories. Editors don’t want them.’ But I love a good animal fantasy – fashionable or not. And I…

I love my new The Magician’s Elephant widget! Sometimes I wonder who reads my blog. Sometimes I wonder if magic is true. Well, last night magic happened. Right here. To me. Friday night I blogged about how I wished I had The Magician’s Elephant widget. A real live magician, moonlighting at Candlewick Press, waved a…

This just in from Publishers Weekly: Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo’s eagerly awaited new novel, The Magician’s Elephant (Candlewick, Sept.), illustrated by Yoko Tanaka, continues to move forward. This week Candlewick revealed the cover art and announced a hefty first printing of 500,000 copies for the 208-page fable, in which a boy who learns from a…