“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”
Fuente: The Tale of Despereaux
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo [1] es una escritora estadounidense, reconocida por sus novelas de temática infantil que involucran habitualmente animales. Es una de las seis personas que lograron ganar varias Medallas Newbery, galardones obtenidos por sus novelas The Tale of Despereaux y Flora & Ulysses . Su obra infantil más reconocida es la serie de Mercy Watson, ilustrada por Chris Van Dusen.
DiCamillo fue la embajadora estadounidense de la literatura infantil, nombrada por la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos entre 2014 y 2015.[2][3][4]
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“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”
Fuente: The Tale of Despereaux
Fuente: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Contexto: Despereaux looked down at the book, and something remarkable happened. The marks on the pages, the "squiggles" as Merlot referred to them, arranged themselves into shapes. The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time
Fuente: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Four: A Surprisingly Helpful Cynic, p. 12
Fuente: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Two: The Mind of a Squirrel, p. 10
Fuente: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Eight: Helpful Information, p. 20
“Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.”
Fuente: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Twelve: The Forces of Evil, p. 39
“Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.”
The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Fuente: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter One: A Natural-Born Cynic, p. 7