Of the title character in “Lost Evangeline,” it is said she “lived a great life of the imagination.” You could say the same about Evangeline’s creator, Kate DiCamillo.

The beloved, Minneapolis-based writer has created more than three dozen books, including two that won the coveted Newbery Award, “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Flora & Ulysses.” Her latest, “Evangeline,” concludes a trilogy of fairy tales set in the mythical land of Norendy, which are linked by characters who flit from book to book. (Its predecessors are “The Puppets of Spelhorst” and “The Hotel Balzaar.”)

Evangeline grew out of the notebooks DiCamillo always keeps with her, with ideas for characters, conversations overheard on airplanes and the like. Described as being “as small as a mouse,” Evangeline is tiny — which, it

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