The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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Once, in a house on ecypt
STREET, there lived a china rabbit
named Edward Tulane* The rabbit was
very pleased with himself, and for good
reason: he was owned by a girl named
Abilene, who treated him with the utmost
care and adored him completely.
And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraor-
dinary journey, from the depths of the
ocean to the net of a fisherman, from
the top of a garbage heap to the fireside
of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside
of an ailing child to the streets of
O
Memphis. And along the way, we are
shown a true miracle—-that even a heart
of the most breakable kind can learn to
love, to lose, and to love again.
Kate DiCamillo is the author
of The Tale of Despereaux, which received the
Newbery Medal; Because of Winn-Dixie) which
received a Newbery Honor; The Tiger Rising,
which was named a National Book Award
Finalist; and the Mercy Watson stories. She
says, "One Christmas, I received an elegantly
dressed toy... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Once, in a house on ecypt
STREET, there lived a china rabbit
named Edward Tulane* The rabbit was
very pleased with himself, and for good
reason: he was owned by a girl named
Abilene, who treated him with the utmost
care and adored him completely.
And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraor-
dinary journey, from the depths of the
ocean to the net of a fisherman, from
the top of a garbage heap to the fireside
of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside
of an ailing child to the streets of
O
Memphis. And along the way, we are
shown a true miracle—-that even a heart
of the most breakable kind can learn to
love, to lose, and to love again.
Kate DiCamillo is the author
of The Tale of Despereaux, which received the
Newbery Medal; Because of Winn-Dixie) which
received a Newbery Honor; The Tiger Rising,
which was named a National Book Award
Finalist; and the Mercy Watson stories. She
says, "One Christmas, I received an elegantly
dressed toy rabbit as a gift. A few days later,
I dreamed that the rabbit was face-down on
the ocean floor—lost and waiting to be
found. In telling this story, I was lost for a
good long while, too. And then, finally, like
Edward, I was found."
Bagram Ibatoulline is the
illustrator of Crossing by Philip Booth; The
Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen,
retold by Stephen Mitchell; The Animal Hedge
by Paul Fleischman; Han a in the Time of the
Tulips by Deborah Noyes; and The Serpent
Came to Gloucester by M. T. Anderson. He
says, "It was a singular experience to work on
the illustrations for Tdward Tulane and to be
there with him 011 his journey. I must admit,
I'm a bit wistful, now that; I've come to the
end of the road on this very special book." Vissza