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Because of Winn-Dixie Anniversary Edition

Kate DiCamillo

Revisit Kate DiCamillo’s beloved first novel with a beautiful twentieth-anniversary edition featuring an introduction by Ann Patchett. “This book is (I hope) a hymn of praise to dogs, friendship, and the South,” Kate DiCamillo said of her best-selling debut novel, which has been awarded a Newbery H...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

The hosts mentioned the book while describing a classroom scene, saying the story caused a possum to startle and fly into the air.

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a timely, mostly hairless blur hissing between the copies of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Because of Winn-Dixie.

— Episode: MFM Minisode 458

Episode: MFM Minisode 458

The hosts mentioned the book while describing a classroom scene, saying the story caused a possum to startle and fly into the air.

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a timely, mostly hairless blur hissing between the copies of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Because of Winn-Dixie.

because of Winn-Dixie startled him awake and straight into flight mode.

On Being with Krista Tippett

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On Being with Krista Tippett

The speaker's daughter mentioned that this book was required reading for a generation of students. The book also served as the only book that one of her friends ever read. It is the book that started Kate DiCamillo's writing career, and her first published book.

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And just you know when she was growing up because of when Dixie was required reading for just a whole generation of kids and was for a while and probably still is in places.

— Episode: [Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Ti...

Episode: [Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett

The speaker's daughter mentioned that this book was required reading for a generation of students. The book also served as the only book that one of her friends ever read. It is the book that started Kate DiCamillo's writing career, and her first published book.

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And just you know when she was growing up because of when Dixie was required reading for just a whole generation of kids and was for a while and probably still is in places.

And then and now she and then why did she tell. So then now there are you know then there are the kids who read Desperate or The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.

And as far as we know this is still the only book he has ever read.

And to me I had this picture of you right? You Kate that was your first book.

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