Kate DiCamillo Quotes About Tigers

Quotes about: Tigers

• The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move to a new town. And two things happen the same day that Rob gets sent home. One is he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey, who is what my mother would call "a piece of work," and he finds a real tiger in a cage in the woods behind the motel where he lives with his dad. And that's the story: what happens with the Sistine tiger, the real tiger and Rob's grief.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Mother, Children

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. In-depth Written Interview.

• Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Going Away, Adults

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Home, Florida

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

  Kate DiCamillo

  People, Dixie, Rising

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Kids, Dark

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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