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Book Reviewed by:An extraordinary 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 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.
Once, in a house on
Egypt 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 and Bagram Ibatoulline take us on an extraordinary 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 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.
To an adult reader the storyline of Edward Tulane is fairly predictable but the writing is anything but. DiCamillo's art is to play our heart strings like a maestro using the vocabulary of a third-grader...continued
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Edward Tulane was inspired by a very elegant rabbit "doll" given to Kate by a friend for Christmas a couple of years ago. She says, "Not long after receiving the rabbit, I had this very clear image of him underwater, on the bottom of the sea, minus all of his finery, lost and alone."
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