Kate DiCamillo

{{Infobox writer

| name = Kate DiCamillo

| image = 2018-us-nationalbookfestival-kate-dicamillo.jpg

| caption = DiCamillo at the 2018 National Book Festival

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|3|25|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| occupation = Writer

| genre = Children's fiction

| notableworks = {{plainlist|

Because of Winn-Dixie (2000)
The Tiger Rising (2001)
The Tale of Despereaux (2003)
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006)
The Magician's Elephant (2009)
Flora & Ulysses (2013)
Mercy Watson series (2005—2022)

}}

| awards = {{awd |Newbery Medal |2004, 2014}}{{awd|National Ambassador for Young People's Literature|2014–15}}

| website = {{URL|katedicamillo.com}}

| signature = Magician's Elephant (signed) (cropped).png

| birth_name = Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo

}}

Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) is an American author of children's fiction. She has published over 25 novels, including Because of Winn-Dixie (2000), The Tiger Rising (2001), The Tale of Despereaux (2003), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006), The Magician's Elephant (2009), the Mercy Watson series (2005—2022), and Flora & Ulysses (2013). Her books have sold around 37 million copies. Four have been developed into films and two have been adapted into musical settings. Her works have won various awards; The Tale of Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses won the Newbery Medal, making DiCamillo one of seven authors to have won two Newbery Medals.

Born in Philadelphia, DiCamillo moved to Clermont, Florida, as a child, where she grew up. She earned an English degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and spent several years working entry-level jobs in Clermont before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1994. In Minnesota, DiCamillo worked in a book warehouse and attempted to get a book published. Her first book to be accepted for publication was Because of Winn-Dixie, which was critically and commercially successful. DiCamillo then left her job to become a full-time author.

From 2014 to 2015, DiCamillo was the American National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. She lives in Minneapolis and continues to write. Her latest book, The Hotel Balzaar, was published on October 1, 2024.

Early life and education

Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo{{Cite web|title=Kate DiCamillo|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-DiCamillo|url-status=live|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=November 9, 2021|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109233730/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-DiCamillo}} was born on March 25, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Betty Lee DiCamillo ({{Nee|Gouff}}), a teacher, and Adolph Louis DiCamillo, an orthodontist.{{Sfn|Kumar|2010|pp=27–31}}{{Sfn|Peacock|2002|pp=128–129}} DiCamillo is the sister of Curt DiCamillo, an architectural historian.{{Cite web |title=Curt DiCamillo {{!}} American Ancestors |url=https://www.americanancestors.org/staff/curt-dicamillo |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=www.americanancestors.org}} She had chronic pneumonia as a child and was often hospitalized.{{Cite news|last=Hertzel|first=Laurie|date=December 28, 2014|title=Star Tribune artist of the year: Kate DiCamillo, rock star of children's lit|url=https://www.startribune.com/artist-of-year-kate-dicamillo-rock-star-of-children-s-lit/286798261/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110140814/https://www.startribune.com/artist-of-year-kate-dicamillo-rock-star-of-children-s-lit/286798261/|archive-date=November 10, 2021|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=Star Tribune}} In hopes of helping her sickness, the family moved to the warmer climate of Clermont, Florida,{{Cite web |title=For Kate DiCamillo, connection is the story |url=https://www.tampabay.com/features/books/For-Kate-DiCamillo-connection-is-the-story_162262533/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}} when Kate was five. Her father remained in Philadelphia with his business, but visited on occasion.{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} Although he originally planned to move with the family after selling his practice, this never happened.{{Cite news|last=Margolies|first=Jane|date=February 21, 2006|title=Pleasantly Stunned, a Star Children's Author Hits the Tour Trail Again|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/books/pleasantly-stunned-a-star-childrens-author-hits-the-tour-trail-again.html|access-date=November 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110203802/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/books/pleasantly-stunned-a-star-childrens-author-hits-the-tour-trail-again.html|url-status=live}} DiCamillo was an avid reader as a child and often visited the local library.{{Cite news|last=Tuttle|first=Kate|date=May 2, 2015|title=Kate DiCamillo hopes to inspire an early love of reading|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/05/02/story-behind-book-kate-dicamillo-hopes-inspire-early-love-reading/oewYIZ0uVWfBoBJlyKLRFL/story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110204933/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/05/02/story-behind-book-kate-dicamillo-hopes-inspire-early-love-reading/oewYIZ0uVWfBoBJlyKLRFL/story.html|archive-date=November 10, 2021|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=The Boston Globe|language=en-US}} She later credited her mother for sparking her love for books.{{Cite news|last=Hertzel|first=Laurie|date=September 17, 2021|title=The lost manuscript of Kate DiCamillo|url=https://www.startribune.com/the-lost-manuscript-of-kate-dicamillo/600098119/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222034/https://www.startribune.com/the-lost-manuscript-of-kate-dicamillo/600098119/|archive-date=November 9, 2021|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=Star Tribune}} DiCamillo also often turned to reading when she was particularly sick with pneumonia and unable to do much else.{{Sfn|Briggs|2005|p=6}} She wanted to be a veterinarian until she was around ten.{{Cite news|last=Grant|first=Tracy|date=February 10, 2004|title=With Newbery award, author enjoys her own fairy-tale ending|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-02-10-0402140032-story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110231719/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-02-10-0402140032-story.html|archive-date=November 10, 2021|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=Chicago Tribune|language=en}}

She was educated at public schools in the area beginning with Clermont Elementary,{{Sfn|Biography Today|2002|pp=38–40}} before entering Rollins College. DiCamillo left Rollins and worked for a time at Walt Disney World before briefly attending the University of Central Florida.{{Cite news|last=Pate|first=Nancy|date=September 28, 2001|title=Because of a Book|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2001-09-28-0109270455-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=Orlando Sentinel|language=en-US|archive-date=December 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211214802/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/}} She eventually entered the University of Florida, Gainesville,{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English in 1987.{{Sfn|Kumar|2010|pp=27–31}}

Early career

DiCamillo then worked various entry-level jobs in Clermont,{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} including at Circus World, Walt Disney World, a campground, and a greenhouse.{{Sfn|Briggs|2005|p=10}} She said of her life during this time that she thought she was a talented writer and expected it to be quickly recognized so she "sat around for the next seven or eight years".{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} DiCamillo moved to Minneapolis in 1994, following a close friend, and after several jobs was hired to work at The Bookman, a book warehouse and distributor, as a picker,{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}}{{Cite web|last=Grumdahl|first=Dara Moskowitz|date=September 23, 2019|title=Kate DiCamillo Might Be Your Neighbor|url=http://mspmag.com/api/content/08525e3c-d0d1-11e9-abe2-12f1225286c6/|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=Mpls.St.Paul Magazine|language=en-us|archive-date=December 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211214734/https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/kate-dicamillo-beverly-right-here/|url-status=live}} eventually in the children's book section, a placement she was initially disappointed by. While working in the department, DiCamillo discovered The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, a children's novel she greatly admired.{{cite web|last1=Hesse|first1=Monica|date=January 2, 2014|title=Kate DiCamillo, author of 'Because of Winn Dixie', named children's literature ambassador|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kate-dicamillo-author-of-because-of-winn-dixie-named-childrens-literature-ambassador/2014/01/02/a83d4c2e-6e4c-11e3-b405-7e360f7e9fd2_story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525213645/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kate-dicamillo-author-of-because-of-winn-dixie-named-childrens-literature-ambassador/2014/01/02/a83d4c2e-6e4c-11e3-b405-7e360f7e9fd2_story.html|archive-date=May 25, 2019|access-date=January 10, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{Sfn|Biography Today|2002|pp=38–40}}

She began writing regularly while working at the warehouse, waking up before her shifts on weekdays to write.{{Sfn|Briggs|2005|p=12}} After four years in Minnesota, DiCamillo met the author Louise Erdrich, who encouraged her. DiCamillo submitted her books to several publishers.{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} She received in return 473 rejection letters.{{Cite news|last=Morris|first=Linda|date=May 10, 2017|title=Kate DiCamillo: How she became a bestseller after 473 rejection letters|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/kate-dicamillo-how-she-became-a-bestseller-after-473-rejection-letters-20170310-guv3e7.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222034/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/kate-dicamillo-how-she-became-a-bestseller-after-473-rejection-letters-20170310-guv3e7.html|archive-date=November 9, 2021|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}} She was also encouraged by the author Jane Resh Thomas.{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} By the turn of the 21st century, despite her efforts, DiCamillo had published only several short stories aimed at adults.{{Sfn|Kumar|2010|pp=27–31}}

Writing career and recognition

DiCamillo had published 25 books as of 2018.{{Cite news|last=Grossmann|first=Mary Ann|date=October 13, 2018|title=Kate DiCamillo is much like her books: funny and respectful of children|url=https://www.twincities.com/2018/10/13/kate-dicamillo-louisiana-way-home/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222035/https://www.twincities.com/2018/10/13/kate-dicamillo-louisiana-way-home/|archive-date=November 9, 2021|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US}} As of 2021, almost 37 million copies of her books were in print.{{Cite news|last=O'Connell|first=Alex|date=October 16, 2021|title=The Magician's Elephant: the story behind the RSC's new show|language=en|newspaper=The Times|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/theatre-dance/article/the-magicians-elephant-the-story-behind-the-rscs-new-show-9cxmh5gzc|url-status=live|access-date=November 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111023825/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-magicians-elephant-the-story-behind-the-rscs-new-show-9cxmh5gzc|archive-date=November 11, 2021|issn=0140-0460}} In 2019, Mpls St Paul Magazine called her "Minnesota's most successful writer". In 2006, a Candlewick Press representative called her books a "cornerstone" of the publisher's success. DiCamillo's first book to be accepted for publication was Because of Winn-Dixie, a story about a girl who finds a stray dog and takes it home. A 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant allowed her to focus more on writing.{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}}{{Sfn|Biography Today|2002|pp=38–40}} She conceived the book's plot during the winter of her first year living in Minnesota, when she was missing her Florida home and upset about her apartment's no-dog policy.{{Sfn|Briggs|2005|p=10}} DiCamillo gave her draft to a Candlewick sales agent who was at a Christmas party held by The Bookman.{{Sfn|Biography Today|2002|pp=38–40}} The draft was initially given to an editor who left the company on maternity leave, and it was lost in a pile of other manuscripts. It was rediscovered when the employee's office was cleaned out. DiCamillo was offered a contract. After a rewrite, the book was published in 2000. Flo Davis, the wife of a founder of the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain, sponsored DiCamillo to visit various schools in Florida and widen the book's reach. It was a quick commercial and critical success. Afterward, DiCamillo left her job to focus on writing full-time.{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} In 2004, she told the Chicago Tribune that she forced herself to write two pages every day, which took her on average 30 minutes to an hour. In 2017, she estimated that she spent 12–15 hours a week writing and 35 to 40 reading, mainly adult fiction. She often traveled to talk about her writing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, DiCamillo reported that she wrote every morning for 100 days.

Because of Winn-Dixie{{'s}} success marked the beginning of DiCamillo's writing career.{{Sfn|Kumar|2010|pp=27–31}}{{Sfn|McElmeel|2004|pp=76–80}} It won the 2000 Josette Frank Award{{cite web|title=List of Winners|url=https://www.bankstreet.edu/center-childrens-literature/childrens-book-committee/awards/award-winners/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911205557/https://www.bankstreet.edu/center-childrens-literature/childrens-book-committee/awards/award-winners/|archive-date=September 11, 2017|publisher=Bank Street College of Education}} and a Newbery Honor.{{cite web|title=Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present|url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624160530/http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal|archive-date=June 24, 2016|publisher=Association for Library Service to Children}} Her second book, The Tiger Rising, was published the next year. It was also well received by critics, who noted stylistic differences between it and Because of Winn-Dixie.{{Sfn|Kumar|2010|pp=27–31}} DiCamillo won the Newbery Medal in 2004 for her third book, The Tale of Despereaux. She wrote it upon the request of the child of one of her friends for a story with "an unlikely hero". DiCamillo said she was shocked by the news of the Newbery.{{Cite web|title=Kate DiCamillo|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/n99039887/kate-dicamillo/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110233603/https://www.loc.gov/item/n99039887/kate-dicamillo/|archive-date=November 10, 2021|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=|publisher=Library of Congress}} She said her 2006 book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, which is about a china rabbit, was very easy to write.

The Mercy Watson series, which features a pig as its main character, began with Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride (2006) and ended with Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes (2009).{{Cite news|last=Bolle|first=Sonja|date=December 13, 2009|title=The best of Word Play in 2009|language=en-US|website=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-word-play13-2009dec13-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110233042/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-word-play13-2009dec13-story.html|archive-date=November 10, 2021}} DiCamillo's 2010 novel Bink & Gollie, co-written with Alison McGhee and illustrated by Tony Fucile, won the 2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal.{{cite web|title=(Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award winners and honor books, 2006–present|url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geiselaward/geiselawardpastwinners|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302223720/http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geiselaward/geiselawardpastwinners|archive-date=March 2, 2018|access-date=December 17, 2022|publisher=ALSC. ALA}}

{{cite web|title=Theodor Seuss Geisel Award|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geiselaward/geiselabout|access-date=October 29, 2015|publisher=ALSC. ALA}} Her 2013 novel Flora & Ulysses was partially inspired by an injured squirrel she saw.{{Cite news|last=Minzesheimer|first=Bob|date=January 27, 2014|title=Kate DiCamillo wins Newbery Medal|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/01/27/newbery-and-caldecott-medals-2013/4933963/|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=USA Today|language=en-US|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110231718/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/01/27/newbery-and-caldecott-medals-2013/4933963/|url-status=live}} It won the Newbery Medal in 2014, making her one of six writers to win two Newberys since the award was created in 1920.

In 2014, DiCamillo was named the fourth National Ambassador for Young People's Literature,{{Cite web|last=Corbett|first=Sue|date=January 2, 2014|title=Kate DiCamillo Named Next National Ambassador for Young People's Literature|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/60497-kate-dicamillo-named-next-national-ambassador-for-young-people-s-literature.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=Publishers Weekly|language=en|archive-date=May 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525215155/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/60497-kate-dicamillo-named-next-national-ambassador-for-young-people-s-literature.html}} a post she held from January 2014 to December 2015.{{Cite web|last=Gershowitz|first=Elissa|date=November 3, 2015|title=An Interview with Kate DiCamillo|url=https://www.hbook.com/story/an-interview-with-kate-dicamillo|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=The Horn Book Magazine|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110030845/https://www.hbook.com/story/an-interview-with-kate-dicamillo|url-status=live}} Upon taking that role, she used the theme "Stories Connect Us".{{Cite news|last=Barron|first=Christina|date=December 12, 2014|title=Author Kate DiCamillo connects with young readers|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/2014/12/11/7131e9d6-6ede-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html|access-date=November 10, 2021|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=May 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514033223/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/2014/12/11/7131e9d6-6ede-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html|url-status=live}} In the summers of 2015 and 2016, DiCamillo led the Collaborative Summer Library Program's summer reading campaign as the summer reading champion.{{Cite web|last1=Marcotte|first1=Alison|date=May 26, 2016|title=Newsmaker: Kate DiCamillo|url=https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/26/newsmaker-kate-dicamillo/|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=American Libraries|language=en-US|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110204935/https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/26/newsmaker-kate-dicamillo/|url-status=live}}

Her 2016 book Raymie Nightingale, about three young girls competing in a competition who end as friends, did not feel complete, and two years later DiCamillo wrote a sequel, Louisiana's Way Home. In 2019 she published Beverly, Right Here, completing a trilogy.{{Cite news|last=Kerr|first=Euan|date=October 17, 2019|title=Kate DiCamillo finishes an unexpected trilogy|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/10/17/kate-dicamillo-finishes-an-unexpected-trilogy-with-beverly-right-here|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110233042/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/10/17/kate-dicamillo-finishes-an-unexpected-trilogy-with-beverly-right-here|archive-date=November 10, 2021|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=MPR News}} In The New York Times the author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley wrote that Beverly, Right Here "may be her finest [book] yet".{{Cite news|last=Bradley|first=Kimberly Brubaker|date=November 1, 2019|title=Kate DiCamillo's New Novel May Be Her Finest Yet|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/books/review/beverly-right-here-kate-dicamillo.html|access-date=November 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110233602/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/books/review/beverly-right-here-kate-dicamillo.html|url-status=live}} In 2019 she received the Regina Medal in recognition of her writing.{{Cite web|title=Regina Medal|url=https://cathla.org/Main/Awards/Regina_Medal.aspx|access-date=November 9, 2021|language=en|archive-date=March 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318212202/https://cathla.org/Main/Awards/Regina_Medal.aspx|url-status=live|publisher=Catholic Library Association}} DiCamillo's 2019 picture book La La La uses just one word: "la".{{Cite news|title=One Word Builds A World In 'La La La'|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/751713094/one-word-builds-a-world-in-la-la-la|access-date=November 10, 2021|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110235300/https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/751713094/one-word-builds-a-world-in-la-la-la|url-status=live}} Minnesota Governor Tim Walz named March 29, 2020, Kate DiCamillo Day.{{Cite web|last=Walz|first=Tim|title=Kate DiCamillo Day|url=https://mn.gov/governor/assets/03.28.20%20Kate%20Dicamillo%20Day_tcm1055-421603.pdf|url-status=live|website=mn.gov|access-date=November 9, 2021|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222037/https://mn.gov/governor/assets/03.28.20%20Kate%20Dicamillo%20Day_tcm1055-421603.pdf}} DiCamillo's novel The Beatryce Prophecy was begun in 2009, rediscovered in 2018, and published in 2021. Her next novel, Ferris, was published on March 5, 2024. Her latest book, The Hotel Balzaar, was published on October 1, 2024.{{cite web |title=DiCamillo, Kate |url=https://www.katedicamillo.com/novels/puppets/ |access-date=October 12, 2023 |website=Puppets of Spelhorst - Kate DiCamillo |publisher=Kate DiCamillo}}

= Awards =

DiCamillo has received several awards for her books.

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! scope=col style="width: 12em" | Award

! scope=col | Year

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Josette Frank Award

|2000

|Because of Winn-Dixie

|{{won}}

Newbery Medal

|2000

|Because of Winn-Dixie

|{{nom|Honor}}

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

|2002

|Because of Winn-Dixie

|{{won}}

[http://sites.google.com/a/cesuvt.org/dcf-award/home/past-winners "Past Winners"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505060507/http://sites.google.com/a/cesuvt.org/dcf-award/home/past-winners |date=May 5, 2014 }}. Google Docs. Retrieved 2014-05-04.

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

|2001

|The Tiger Rising

|{{nom|Finalist}}

|{{Cite web|title=National Book Awards 2001|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2001/?cat=ypl|access-date=2022-02-11|publisher=National Book Foundation}}

Mark Twain Award

|2003

|Because of Winn-Dixie

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web |url=http://www.maslonline.org/?page=MT_previouswinnners |title=Mark Twain Award winners |access-date=February 14, 2022 |archive-date=January 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113192545/https://maslonline.org/?page=MT_previouswinnners |url-status=dead }}

Newbery Medal

|2004

|The Tale of Despereaux

|{{won}}

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

|2005

|The Tale of Despereaux

|{{won}}

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award: Fiction and Poetry

|2006

|The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

|{{won}}

|{{cite web|date=May 30, 2011|title=Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners|url=http://www.hbook.com/2011/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/past-boston-globe-horn-book-award-winners-2|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612015400/http://www.hbook.com/2011/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/past-boston-globe-horn-book-award-winners-2|archive-date=June 12, 2013}}

Parents' Choice Award

|2006

|The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

|{{won}}

|{{cite web |url=http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=20163&award=xx&from=Candlewick%20Press |title=The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane |accessdate=2007-10-11 |work=Parents' Choice |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220210709/http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=20163&award=xx&from=Candlewick%20Press |url-status=dead }}

Quill Awards

|2006

|The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

|{{nom|Finalist}}

|{{cite web |url=http://www.thequills.org/2006.html |title=The Quill Awards - The 2006 Quills |accessdate=2007-10-11 |work=The Quills Literacy Foundation |url-status=usurped |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928063458/http://www.thequills.org/2006.html |archivedate = 2007-09-28}}

Geisel Award

|2006

|Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride

|{{nom|Honor}}

Geisel Award

|2010

|Bink & Gollie

|{{won}}

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

|2013

|Flora & Ulysses

|{{nom|Longlist}}

|{{Cite web|title=Kate DiCamillo|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/kate-dicamillo/|access-date=2022-02-14|website=National Book Foundation|language=en-US}}

Newbery Medal

|2014

|Flora & Ulysses

|{{won}}

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

|2016

|Raymie Nightingale

|{{nom|Finalist}}

Regina Medal

|2019

|—

|{{won}}

Adaptations

DiCamillo's books have been adapted into films and stage productions. Because of Winn-Dixie became a 2005 film of the same name.{{Sfn|Kumar|2010|pp=27–31}} The Tale of Despereaux was developed into a 2008 animated film.{{Cite news|last=Dargis|first=Manohla|author-link=Manohla Dargis|date=2008-12-18|title=Killer Soup, and a Mouse to the Rescue|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/movies/19tale.html|access-date=2022-02-11|issn=0362-4331}} In 2020, Netflix began production on an animated film based on The Magician's Elephant.{{Cite web|last1=McNary|first1=Dave|date=December 15, 2020|title=Noah Jupe, Pixie Davies, Sian Clifford Board Animated Film 'Magician's Elephant' for Netflix|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/noah-jupe-pixie-davis-sian-clifford-magicians-elephant-netflix-1234853632/|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=Variety|language=en-US}} In 2021, Walt Disney Pictures released the film Flora & Ulysses as a streaming film on Disney+.{{Cite news|last=Phillips|first=Maya|date=February 18, 2021|title='Flora & Ulysses' Review: A Hero Tale That Lets the Fur Fly|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/movies/flora-ulysses-review.html|access-date=July 20, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720074124/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/movies/flora-ulysses-review.html|url-status=live}} The film The Tiger Rising was released in 2022.{{Cite news|last=Bugbee|first=Teo|date=2022-01-20|title='The Tiger Rising' Review: A Cage of Clichés|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/movies/the-tiger-rising-review.html|access-date=2022-01-27|issn=0362-4331}}

DiCamillo co-wrote the Winn-Dixie screenplay and did some early consulting on The Tale of Despereaux, but was comparatively less involved. She has said that she enjoyed both adaptations.{{Cite news|last=Deutsch|first=Lindsay|date=January 24, 2013|title=Exclusive peek: Kate DiCamillo's 'Flora and Ulysses'|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/01/23/kate-dicamillo-flora-and-ulysses-reveal/1859307/|url-status=live|access-date=November 11, 2021|website=USA Today|language=en-US|archive-date=November 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111140758/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/01/23/kate-dicamillo-flora-and-ulysses-reveal/1859307/}} She has a cameo in Flora & Ulysses.{{Cite news|last=Hewitt|first=Chris|date=February 16, 2021|title=Kate DiCamillo's award-winning 'Flora & Ulysses' will soon be a movie on Disney Plus|url=https://www.startribune.com/kate-dicamillo-s-award-winning-flora-ulysses-will-soon-be-a-movie-on-disney-plus/600023692/|url-status=live|access-date=November 11, 2021|website=Star Tribune|archive-date=November 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111134129/https://www.startribune.com/kate-dicamillo-s-award-winning-flora-ulysses-will-soon-be-a-movie-on-disney-plus/600023692/}}

In 2017, the Minnesota Opera announced that it was going to adapt The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane into an opera.{{Cite web|last=Berdan|first=Kathy|date=December 14, 2017|title=Minnesota Opera commissions Kate DiCamillo novel for new opera|url=https://www.twincities.com/2017/12/14/new-opera/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222034/https://www.twincities.com/2017/12/14/new-opera/|archive-date=November 9, 2021|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US}} The Magician's Elephant was adapted into a musical that premiered in Stratford-upon-Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2021.{{Cite news|last=Hertzel|first=Laurie|date=February 4, 2020|title=Novel by Minneapolis writer Kate DiCamillo to be a musical in London|url=https://www.startribune.com/novel-by-mpls-writer-kate-dicamillo-to-be-a-musical-in-london/567560342/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222036/https://www.startribune.com/novel-by-mpls-writer-kate-dicamillo-to-be-a-musical-in-london/567560342/|archive-date=November 9, 2021|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=Star Tribune}} The Minnesota Opera canceled its scheduled opening and had not rescheduled it as of September 2021 but the Royal Society Shakespeare Company scheduled a reopening for October 14.

= Theatrical feature films =

Because of Winn-Dixie – February 18, 2005
The Tale of Despereaux – December 19, 2008
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures – February 19, 2021
The Tiger Rising – January 21, 2022
The Magician's Elephant – March 17, 2023

Analysis

DiCamillo's style is often similar to children's literature from the Victorian or Edwardian eras. Homesickness and hope are frequent themes. Many of the books follow someone who is alone and has to survive on their own, undergoing suffering and loneliness,{{Cite news|last1=Kerr|first1=Euan|date=November 26, 2018|title=Kate DiCamillo, Chronicler Of The Hard Truths Of Youth|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/11/26/670837994/kate-dicamillo-chronicler-of-the-hard-truths-of-youth|access-date=November 9, 2021|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109232820/https://www.npr.org/2018/11/26/670837994/kate-dicamillo-chronicler-of-the-hard-truths-of-youth|url-status=live}} commonly the absence or loss of parents.{{Cite web|last=Henderson|first=Jane|title=Kate DiCamillo finds joy in summer reading|url=https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/kate-dicamillo-finds-joy-in-summer-reading/article_d73442e7-4f39-535b-84ba-78e7f48c1a2b.html|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=STLtoday.com|date=July 13, 2018 |language=en|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110204933/https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/kate-dicamillo-finds-joy-in-summer-reading/article_d73442e7-4f39-535b-84ba-78e7f48c1a2b.html|url-status=live}} The author Julie Schumacher said that "a sense of abandonment [...] pervades everything she has written." Other themes in DiCamillo's novels include love, salvation, emotional change, and "senseless cruelty", according to the New York Times.{{Cite news|last=Novik|first=Naomi|date=September 17, 2021|title=Kate DiCamillo's New Novel, About a Girl Who Would Be King|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/books/review/kate-dicamillo-sophie-blackall-the-beatryce-prophecy.html|access-date=November 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110222536/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/books/review/kate-dicamillo-sophie-blackall-the-beatryce-prophecy.html|url-status=live}} According to the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, DiCamillo's works often begin with young protagonists who are "puzzled, wanting, and waiting" but conclude that they must handle matters on their own.{{Cite journal|last1=Usher|first1=Craigan|last2=Kurtz|first2=Brian P.|date=January 1, 2020|title=Wanting, Waiting: The Works of Kate DiCamillo|url=https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(19)32156-2/abstract|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry|language=English|volume=59|issue=1|pages=195|doi=10.1016/j.jaac.2019.11.008|issn=0890-8567|pmid=31879008|s2cid=209490036|url-access=subscription|access-date=November 9, 2021|archive-date=December 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211214739/https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567%2819%2932156-2/fulltext|url-status=live}}

In a 2023 profile in The New Yorker by Casey Cep, DiCamillo first shared details of the physical and emotional abuse her father inflicted on the family before their move to Florida, where he never joined them. In the article, a friend who has known her since childhood suggests that DiCamillo's cumulative writing has been as therapeutic for her as her many years in counseling: "More and more of her shows up in what she writes, and I think it's the writing that saved her."{{Cite news |last=Cep |first=Casey |date=2023-09-11 |title=What Kate DiCamillo Understands About Children |language=en-US |work=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/what-kate-dicamillo-understands-about-children |access-date=2023-11-02 |issn=0028-792X}}

A New York Times article noted that she has written stories in many different genres.{{Cite news|last=Bosman|first=Julie|date=January 2, 2014|title=Newbery Winner to Promote Her Genre|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/books/kate-dicamillo-to-be-ambassador-of-young-peoples-literature.html|access-date=November 9, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222034/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/books/kate-dicamillo-to-be-ambassador-of-young-peoples-literature.html|url-status=live}} She told the National Endowment for the Arts that her books were "the same story, over and over in many ways" with the same themes repeating.{{Cite web|last=Sutton|first=Rebecca|date=September 12, 2014|title=Art Talk with Children's Author Kate DiCamillo|url=https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2014/art-talk-childrens-author-kate-dicamillo|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111140056/https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2014/art-talk-childrens-author-kate-dicamillo|archive-date=November 11, 2021|access-date=November 11, 2021|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts|language=en}} DiCamillo has said that she doesn't know how to "develop a character" but she discovers them "and follow[s] their story." DiCamillo's fiction is influenced by her experiences growing up;{{Sfn|Briggs|2005|p=7}} for instance, many of her realistic fiction novels take place in north and central Florida and include dialogue common to the Southern United States. She told the Orlando Sentinel that she tries to leave room for the reader to read between the lines, saying that she has tried to emulate E. B. White: "He's using the same words we're all using. It must be that stripped-away quality, his heart is resting more on each word, and that's what I'm always trying to do."{{Cite news|last=Boedeker|first=Hal|date=December 2, 2019|title=Kate DiCamillo: Clermont author, national treasure|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv-guy/os-et-kate-dicamillo-clermont-author-national-treasure-20191202-64nogmyzlzbtvidzxjlgi6eypq-story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109222034/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv-guy/os-et-kate-dicamillo-clermont-author-national-treasure-20191202-64nogmyzlzbtvidzxjlgi6eypq-story.html|archive-date=November 9, 2021|access-date=November 9, 2021|website=Orlando Sentinel}} Her novels often include "distinct scenes that are lightly connected".

According to DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane wrote itself, while many of her other works go through eight to nine drafts. She usually only writes one book at a time, but in 2015 she told The Horn Book Magazine that she "juggled" various works, for instance writing a draft of a more serious book and then switching to a shorter, less serious one. She has said that when writing books for children she tries to be direct and "not to condescend to them". In a 2018 article in Time, DiCamillo wrote that children's books should be "a little bit sad".{{Cite magazine|title=Why Children's Books Should Be a Little Sad|url=https://time.com/5099463/kate-dicamillo-kids-books-sad/|access-date=November 10, 2021|magazine=Time|language=en|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110204933/https://time.com/5099463/kate-dicamillo-kids-books-sad/|url-status=live}} She told another interviewer that "the kid in me has never gone away" and that when she writes for children rather than adults the main difference is that she is more hopeful. Many of her books have animals as main characters, something DiCamillo has called ironic, because as a child she avoided such books.

In 2020 the author Ann Patchett published an essay in The New York Times describing reading DiCamillo's work as an adult and recommending that others read it too, calling her work as a whole "sui generis, each one extraordinary".{{Cite news|last=Patchett|first=Ann|date=March 30, 2020|title=Ann Patchett on Why We Need Life-Changing Books Right Now|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/books/review/kate-dicamillo-ann-patchett.html|access-date=November 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110234435/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/books/review/kate-dicamillo-ann-patchett.html|url-status=live}}

List of works

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=Novels=

{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=Because of Winn-Dixie|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=March 2000|isbn=978-0-7636-0776-0}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=The Tiger Rising|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=March 2001|isbn=978-0-7636-1898-8}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=The Tale of Despereaux|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=August 2003|isbn=978-0-7636-1722-6|others=Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=February 2006|isbn=978-0-7636-2589-4|others=Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=The Magician's Elephant|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=September 2009|isbn=978-0-7636-4410-9|others=Illustrated by Yoko Tanaka}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=September 2013|isbn=978-0-7636-6040-6|others=Illustrated by K. G. Campbell}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=Raymie Nightingale|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=April 2016|isbn=978-0-7636-8117-3}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=Louisiana's Way Home|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=October 2018|isbn=978-0-7636-9463-0}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=Beverly, Right Here|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=September 2019|isbn=978-0-7636-9464-7}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=The Beatryce Prophecy|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=September 2021|isbn=978-1-5362-1361-4|others=Illustrated by Sophie Blackall}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=The Puppets of Spelhorst|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=October 2023|isbn=978-1-5362-1675-2|others=Illustrated by Julie Morstad}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=Ferris|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=March 2024|isbn=978-1-5362-3105-2}}
{{cite book|last=DiCamillo|first=Kate|author-mask=0|title=The Hotel Balzaar|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=October 2024|isbn=978-1-5362-2331-6|others=Illustrated by Julia Sarda}}

=Early Reader Chapter books=

Bink & Gollie series (Candlewick Press), text by DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illus. Tony Fucile
Bink & Gollie (September 2010)
Bink & Gollie: Two for One (June 2012)
Bink & Gollie: Best Friends Forever (April 2013)

Mercy Watson series (Candlewick Press), text by DiCamillo, illus. Chris Van Dusen
Mercy Watson to the Rescue (August 2005)
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride (May 2006)
Mercy Watson Fights Crime (August 2006)
Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise (July 2007)
Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (July 2008)
Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes (July 2009)
A Very Mercy Christmas (September 2022)

Tales from Deckawoo Drive series, text by DiCamillo, illus. Chris Van Dusen
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume One (August 2014)
Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Two (August 2015)
Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Three (August 2016)
Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Four (October 2017)
Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem, Volume Five (June 2020)
Franklin Endicott and the Third Key, Volume Six (June 2021)
Mercy Watson is Missing!, Volume Seven (December 2023)

Orris and Timble series, text by DiCamillo, illus. Carmen Mok
Orris and Timble: The Beginning (April 2024)
Orris and Timble: Lost and Found (April 2025)

=Picture books=

{{cite book |title=Great Joy |date=October 2007 |others=Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline |oclc=144226866}}
{{cite book |title=Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken |date=September 2008 |others=Illustrated by Harry Bliss}}
{{cite book |title=A Piglet Named Mercy |date=April 2019 |others=Illustrated by Chris Van Dusen}}

=Short stories=

"Your Question for Author Here", text by DiCamillo and Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Funny Business (HarperCollins, 2010){{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680277414 |title=Guys read : funny business |date=2010 |publisher=Walden Pond Press |others=Jon Scieszka, Adam Rex |isbn=978-0-06-201763-5 |edition=1st |location=New York |oclc=680277414}}
"The Third Floor Bedroom", in Chris Van Allsburg, et al., The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011){{Cite news|last=Hertzel|first=Laurie|date=October 29, 2011|title=The Bookmark: The latest from the local scene|url=https://www.startribune.com/the-bookmark-the-latest-from-the-local-scene/132729208/|access-date=2022-02-11|work=Star Tribune}}
"The Castle of Rose Tellin", in The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners (Vintage Books, September 2024){{cite web |last1=Quigley |first1=Jenny Minton |title=Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction |url=https://lithub.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2024-o-henry-prize-for-short-fiction/ |website=Literary Hub |date=22 April 2024}}

References

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{{Cite book|last=Briggs|first=Lucy|url=http://archive.org/details/katedicamillo0000brig|url-access=registration|title=Kate DiCamillo|date=2005|location=New York City|publisher=Weigl Publishers|isbn=978-1-59036-283-9}}
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External links

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[https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/3540 Kate DiCamillo papers] at University of Minnesota Libraries
[https://www.hbook.com/story/profile-kate-dicamillo Profile of Kate DiCamillo] by Andrea Tompa, one of her editors

{{cite web|title=Meet the Author: Kate DiCamillo|date=March 8, 2010|publisher=AdLit|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyJJ1XnNy0U}}
{{cite web|title=2014 Newberry-Caldecott Banquet -- Kate DiCamillo|date=June 29, 2014|publisher=Association for Library Service to Children|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH5GZkmmJik}}
{{cite web|title=Kate DiCamiilo on the magic of reading aloud|date=November 19, 2018|publisher=PBS NewsHour|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA8GkalW-lU}}
{{cite web|title=Beloved Kid's Author Kate DiCamillo On Getting 473 Rejection Letters|publisher=TODAY|date=June 14, 2022|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZednTAbFyoE}}
{{cite web|title=EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Minnesota's children's author Kate DiCamillo|date=April 27, 2023|publisher=KARE 11|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOFYwEExPHk}}

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