The cover has been unveiled for Kate DiCamillo’s forthcoming middle grade novel, Raymie Nightingale. We’ve embedded the full image for the jacket design above—what do you think?
This project will be DiCamillo’s seventh major novel. Candlewick Press has scheduled the publication date for April 12, 2016.
Entertainment Weekly reports that the story “centers on a spunky 10-year-old named Raymie Clarke, whose father has just run away with a local dental hygienist. Raymie realizes that it’s up to her to get him back, so she concocts a plan: She’ll win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then once her father sees her photo in the paper, he’ll come home. But can she deal with the pressures of baton-twirling and new friends like Louisiana Elefante, who has a background in show-biz, and Beverly Tapinski, who has her own plan to sabotage the entire contest.”