She’s bloody and dirty, hanging onto the ear of Answelica, the monastery’s ill-tempered goat. “The Beatryce Prophecy” centers on Beatryce, found by Brother Edik curled up in the barn of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Besides the new book, there are paperback film tie-in editions of “Flora & Ulysses” and “The Tiger Rising.” A GOAT’S SOUL
Now, two decades after her debut, DiCamillo is having a big year. Honored with two prestigious American Library Association Newbery Medals (for “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Flora and Ulysses”), she is former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She’s also written 13 chapter books, including the Bink & Gollie series with Alison McGhee, another about toast-loving pig Mercy Watson, and Tales From Deckawoo Drive. “The Beatryce Prophecy” aimed at middle-grade readers, is her 10th novel. Those characters, who live in medieval times, include a girl who breaks the law by knowing how to read, a timid monk, and a loyal but fierce goat, one of DiCamllo’s most endearing characters.ĭiCamillo, who is always fun to talk with, is one of the nation’s most popular children’s writers (although she insists her books are for all ages) with a total of 37 million copies in print worldwide. It’s about getting out of my own way and following these characters I care about.” “How those three words led to ‘The Beatryce Prophecy,’ I have no idea,” DiCamillo said with a laugh during a phone conversation from her Minneapolis home. Kate DiCamillo had only three words in her mind when she began her luminous new novel - monk, moon and goat. The prophecy states that this child will be a girl. And to know this is to know everything.“It is written in the Chronicles of Sorrowing But should she lose her way, Beatryce knows that those who love her – a wild-eyed monk, a man who had once been king, a boy with a terrible sword and a goat with a head as hard as stone – will never give up searching for her. And so it is that a girl with a head full of stories must venture into a dark wood in search of the castle of a king who wishes her dead. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret – one that imperils them all. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the recalcitrant goat.
In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. A magical medieval tale from two masters, Newbery Medal-winning Kate DiCamillo and Caldecott Medal-winning Sophie Blackall - a fantastical meditation on fate, love and the power of words to spell the world.
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