Kate DiCamillo is Sworn In as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

Kate’s platform, “Stories Connect Us”, is also a tribute and a rousing call about the importance of story. “Stories for me are a glass-bottom boat ride. We see each other; we open up. We change. Everyone is together in a room. Everyone is connected.” When we read to each other, Kate says, “We are taken off that horrible rock of our aloneness. I want to work to bring more people together into a room.”