“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”
Fonte: The Tale of Despereaux
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo é uma escritora estadunidense de livros infantojuvenis, geralmente usando animais em suas histórias.
De 2014 a 2016 DiCamillo é Embaixadora de Literatura Infantil e Juvenil dos EUA, com promoção do livro e a leitura um pouco por todo o país.
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“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”
Fonte: The Tale of Despereaux
Fonte: 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
Fonte: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Four: A Surprisingly Helpful Cynic, p. 12
Fonte: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Two: The Mind of a Squirrel, p. 10
Fonte: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Eight: Helpful Information, p. 20
“Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.”
Fonte: 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)
Fonte: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter One: A Natural-Born Cynic, p. 7