Meet the Author - Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised in Clermont, Florida, and Currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She writes for both children and adults.  She likes to think of herself as a storyteller.

Here are a few more facts about her in her own words: "I am short and loud.  I hate to cook and love to eat.  I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children (Luke, Roxanne, and Max)  and one not so lovely dog (Henry)."

Kate DiCamillo has a fabulous website! http://www.katedicamillo.com/index.html.  There are activities, excerpts, and a lot more information about Kate and her work on the site.  you can even access Kate's writing journal!

She also has a Mercy Watson website www.mercywatson.com.  There are fun activities and games on this site and you can even meet all the characters in the Mercy Watson books.

Here are some of her books we have in our library:
         

Pigeon's Birthday

April 1st was Pigeon's birthday.  Mo Willems created pigeon 10 years ago in his first Pigeon book "Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus."  The ONLY way to celebrate a birthday is to have a party.  We have been having fun pigeon parties all week long in our library.  We played two games, hot cookie and who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.  Then we read the latest Pigeon book, "The Duckling gets a Cookie".  We have also had pigeon coloring pages and bookmarks for the students to take home.  It has been a fun week celebrating such a beloved character in our library. Here is a fun pigeon website you and your children may want to explore www.pigeonpresents.com.  I have posted some other fun books by Mo Willems you may want to check out and read.