“When Kate DiCamillo was a child, she spent five years battling chronic pneumonia. The condition was so bad, her family moved from Philadelphia to central Florida so she’d be more comfortable in a better climate.
Now, as an award-winning children’s author and the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, DiCamillo cites her childhood disease as a positive.
‘When I talk to kids about being sick, it’s always very apparent to me, and, sometimes, they’ll pick up on it, too, that this thing that seemed so bad was ultimately a good thing,’ says DiCamillo, who appears Oct. 15 at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland as a guest of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ Kids & Teens series. ‘I don’t know if I would have been a writer without it.'”
#Pittsburgh lecture series guest finds she writes for her younger self. http://t.co/venmQZXSdi
— TribLIVE.com (@TribLIVE) October 12, 2015