Watson's beautiful pink Cadillac convertible. Watson are out for their usual Saturday afternoon drive in Mr. In this equally wacky sequel, Mercy and Mr. Kate DiCamillo is redefining the easy reader genre with her wildly slapstick but deadpan prose, made even funnier with Chris Van Dusen's retro style glossy illustrations, like a 1950s reading book run amok. Watson's bed broke and Mercy ran off to find some sugar cookies and inadvertently saved the day. Sometimes you don’t truly understand a character until you know what she loves above all else.Maybe you got to know Mercy, that free-spirited porcine wonder, in her first easy chapter book, Mercy Watson to the Rescue, which describes what happened the night Mr. As I listened to her, I could see Mercy nodding in emphatic agreement.
One day, my friend Alison was going on and on and on about the many virtues of toast.
About Mercy, she says, “Mercy Watson had been in my head for a long time, but I couldn’t figure out how to tell her story. Together, we see one another.” Kate DiCamillo lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2014–2015, and her platform was “Stories Connect Us.” She says about stories, “When we read together, we connect. Kate DiCamillo is also the author of The Tale of Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, both of which received the Newbery Medal, as well as The Tiger Rising, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Great Joy, and The Magician’s Elephant. Literally.” Mercy Watson is Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling early reader series, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. When the author learned that her first novel, Because of Winn-Dixie, had been chosen to receive a Newbery Honor, she found herself “walking into walls. For Kate DiCamillo, it was a dream come true. It’s the pipe dream of many an aspiring author: publish your debut novel, claim a spot on the New York Times bestseller list, and rack up an astonishing array of awards.
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