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Hi, may name is Kate DiCamillo and I write books for young readers.
I've written "Tale of Despereaux" "Because of Winn Dixie"
a book about a squirrel and a girl named "Flora and Ulysses"
and I've also got some books about a pig, "Mercy Watson"
I'm here to talk to you about librarians, how much they matter to me.
as a reader and as a writer
and how lucky I feel kids are. Because they have access to school librarians and...
and public librarians.
When school librarians and teachers work with the public libraries...
a wonderful thing happens and that is, we keep kids reading all year long.
The Collaborative Summer Library Program helps libraries with wonderful programming for the summers.
So when we all work together to get the kids into the library,
parents, teachers, librarians. It makes stronger communities and it makes stronger readers.
Thank you.