INTRO-- One of Minnesota's award-winning children's authors is out with a new book. Kate Dicamillo's (dee come ELLO) won the Newbery Honor for her first story, "Because of Winn-Dixie." Now she's written "The Tiger Rising," which follows a boy named Rob, his friend Sistine, and a live tiger Rob finds while walking through the Florida woods. Dicamillo says her main goal was to write a good story.
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