“I hope that readers laugh. I hope that they think about their souls.”
Candlewick Press
Kate DiCamillo is a two-time Newbery Medal-winning author who has gifted the world with children's stories like The Tale of Despereaux and Because of Winn-Dixie. And now, DiCamillo has written another novel to add to her collection of beautiful stories.
Raymie Nightingale, which will be published this April, is about a 10-year-old from Florida named Raymie who enters a local beauty beauty pageant as an attempt to get her dad to notice her after he left their family for a new life.
BuzzFeed had the chance to catch up with the author over email and learn about Raymie Nightingale. Here's what she had to say:
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