Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Which came first: Ulysses or Flora? The squirrel. Author Kate DiCamillo saw a squirrel on her porch and then came up with the idea for the book.
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Did you notice that every time Ulysses does something heroic, there's a comic? That's to make sure we're separating his adventures from Flora's.
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Author Kate DiCamillo says she gets her ideas from eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
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New York Times best-seller Kate DiCamillo has had her books translated into thirty-nine languages and sold over twenty million copies.
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