Kate DiCamillo

Holy unanticipated occurrences! It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman is the just the right person to step in and save him....

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane....

Pig hero. Porcine wonder. Fan of toast with a great deal of butter on it. Mercy Watson’s disarming personality and hilarious hijinks captivate early chapter-book audiences.

One summer's day, 10-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends....

This is the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea....

Oh, Mercy! Pig out on the first three adventures in the New York Times best-selling series.

Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan....

When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask....

The beguiling porcine wonder turns bucking bronco to snare a robber in this hilarious new addition to the New York Times best-selling series.

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale in which five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning, and high spirits....

An 11-year-old boy, Rob Horton, finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the hotel where he lives with his father....

When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return....

From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world....

Every favorite character from Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestselling Mercy Watson books makes an appearance in this extended, riotously funny series crescendo....

Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo's New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books....

In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of Norendy, where tales swirl within tales—and every moment is a story in the making....

Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it.....

Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes, their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes, they wish something different would happen. And one day, it does, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door....

Can visions of treats entice a porcine wonder to wear her princess costume? Hold on for some Halloween havoc, Mercy Watson-style....

Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy....