Based on the best-selling book, Because of Winn-Dixie is the heartwarming tale of a young girl whose life is changed by a scruffy, fun-loving pooch she names Winn-Dixie. The special bond between ...

Kate DiCamillo is the two-time Newbery award-winning author of Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux and, most recently, Raymie Nightingale. Earlier this week, the author Matt de la Peña ...

DiCamillo hoped her first book, "Because of Winn-Dixie," would sell 5,000 copies. It went on to win a Newberry honor that would help propel sales to 11 million.

Read Full Bio. Brian Dakss. ... But that dog, she reveals, was the other one who played Winn Dixie, one named Scott, ... It's an adaptation of the classic book by Roald Dahl.

“Because of Winn-Dixie,” Minnesotan Kate DiCamillo’s story of a 10-year-old girl and her dog, is the first selection for One Book/One Minnesota, a new statewide book club that inv… ...

Because of Winn-Dixie is quite possibly the best movie yet from Walden Media, ... although some creative license was taken to flesh out the small book into a full-length cinematic feature.

"Because of Winn-Dixie," the adaptation of the popular tweener novel of the same name, recalls another recent adaptation of a similarly beloved book, "Holes." As with that wonderful 2003 family ...

Kate DiCamillo has a new book in September called “Lost Evangeline” but, before then, she’s celebrating the 25th anniversary of her first novel, “Because of Winn-Dixie.” The Minneapolis ...