The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate DiCamillo, Bagram Ibatoulline
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Read in April, 2007
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Nah berhubung udah lama banget nggak baca buku, aku kali ini mau review buku karangannya Kate DiCamillo yang berjudul The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Dulu beli buku ini di pameran buku di Gedung Gramedia Jalan Panjang bulan Desember kemarin. Ini buku aku beli karena menurut mbak-mbak Gramednya bagus isinya. Aku liat sih emang buku anak-anak dan gambarnya bagussss. Berhubung buku ini lagi diskon, ya aku beli aja.
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Nah berhubung udah lama banget nggak baca buku, aku kali ini mau review buku karangannya Kate DiCamillo yang berjudul The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Dulu beli buku ini di pameran buku di Gedung Gramedia Jalan Panjang bulan Desember kemarin. Ini buku aku beli karena menurut mbak-mbak Gramednya bagus isinya. Aku liat sih emang buku anak-anak dan gambarnya bagussss. Berhubung buku ini lagi diskon, ya aku beli aja.
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
children, people who have/work with children, people looking for ways to explain the selfless love
I looked forward to reading this book because, as the review on goodreads of Edward Tulane says, Kate DiCamillo is an incomparable children's author, and I have loved and cried over The Tale of Despereaux and The Tiger Rising in the middle of the Borders Cafe before. Edward's journey is miraculous in that the little china rabbit from which the book gets its name learns to love out of his many losses, which starts with losing his straw hat and ends with losing his hardened h...more
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Read in June, 2008
recommends it for:
those who like fairy tales, slightly macabre but not scary
I came across the term Transitional Object in a philosophy class a few years back at the New School. Referring to those stuffed animals, dolls, blankets, etc that most children become inseparable from, these objects assist in the tricky and anxious transition from an infantile feeling of oneness to the acceptance that we are indeed separate from everyone and everything. Edward, an expensive porcelain rabbit dressed in ornate silk clothing, is presented as a just such an object of devotion, but t...more
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everyone
This story is so freakin awesome. It's tender, aww. It's about a china rabbit by the name of Edward Tulane who lives with the girl who made him and her upper-class family. Edward is an incredibly vapid and conceited china rabbit, and thinks himself the best thing to ever sit upon the earth's crust. Abilene, his owner, loves him dearly and treats him as a real person. Edward loves no one but himself, and doesn't care a thing for love anyway. After Abilene's grandmother delivers a cleverly hidden ...more
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Read in February, 2008
I have to say that I am quite fond of Kate DiCamillo's writing, and Maggie and I very much enjoyed reading this book together. Oh, but it was exquisitely and simultaneously joyful and sad. Maggie even asked me later last night, after we had finished the book and she was getting ready to brush her teeth, "Why do people write about sad things, Mom?" Ah - innocence slips away in small parcels. Then again, when I read her The Velveteen Rabbit, B actually came running into the room to f...more
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Read in January, 2006
recommends it for:
EVERYONE!!
We read this book to our kids and we all loved it! We picked it up after reading another book by the author (Despereaux) and we loved that one so much, we decided to get another of her's. Well, this didn't disappoint and we love this one too. The thing I love about this book in particular is the growth of the characters. While this is a great story to read to children, I wouldn't call it a children's book - because it is so much more than that. The complexity of the themes (love, compassion...more
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Read in May, 2007
Edward Tulane, a china rabbit belonging to a little girl named Abilene, does not love anyone or anything except himself. He's extremely vain, snobby, and ill-tempered (although no one can tell except Abilene's grandmother because Edward can't move himself or speak out loud). Then one day he's accidentally dropped overboard a ship and spends several months at the bottom of the sea before a storm picks him up and deposits him in the net of a fisherman. Although he would have been mortified that th...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
Parents reading aloud to their children.
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Read in December, 2007
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
By Kate Dicamillo
Reviewed by Raul Velázquez, grade 8
Kipp aspire academy, San Antonio, TX
"Please", cried Abilene. “Don’t throw him. He’s made of china. He’ll break. “This is the story of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo. This book is about a china rabbit that is owned by an old lady who passed it on to her niece. Her niece, Abilene loves her china doll rabbit, Edwaed Tulane.
On a...more
By Kate Dicamillo
Reviewed by Raul Velázquez, grade 8
Kipp aspire academy, San Antonio, TX
"Please", cried Abilene. “Don’t throw him. He’s made of china. He’ll break. “This is the story of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo. This book is about a china rabbit that is owned by an old lady who passed it on to her niece. Her niece, Abilene loves her china doll rabbit, Edwaed Tulane.
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Read in January, 2008
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Celeste Martinezrecommends it for: everybody
I loved this book. The book was about a china rabbit named Edward who goes from family to family meeting new people and living with them. He learns how different people live and how they are.
While staying with them Edward gets used to them, he likes them. He is loved by every person who he stays with and Edward loves them back, but something bad always ends up happening to Edward. Like he’ll get lost and someone new will find him. Edward learns how to love people. He learns how to becom...more
While staying with them Edward gets used to them, he likes them. He is loved by every person who he stays with and Edward loves them back, but something bad always ends up happening to Edward. Like he’ll get lost and someone new will find him. Edward learns how to love people. He learns how to becom...more
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
people who liked Watership Down or the Velveteen Rabbit
Edward Tulane is a selfish, well-dressed china rabbit who is loved extravagantly by a girl, but doesn't care. He doesn't know how to love. There's a great little story in it about a princess who is loved by everybody but loves no one but herself in return. When a prince who loves her proposes and gives her a gold ring, she swallows it and runs away into the forest. Inside the forest she gets lost and finds a little house. She bangs on the door and demands food and shelter from the occupant or el...more
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Read in September, 2006
recommends it for:
people who enjoy the unheimlich
Talk about uncanny... it was very touching.
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This book chronicles the journeys of a specially-commissioned china rabbit, Edward Tulane, as he journeys away from his original owner, a little girl named Abilene, to various other transient owners, before returning at last to Abilene, a very changed rabbit, finally worthy of her love. People sometimes dismiss this book as The Velveteen Rabbit retold, but seeing the constant recycling of themes in literature, thi...more
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This book chronicles the journeys of a specially-commissioned china rabbit, Edward Tulane, as he journeys away from his original owner, a little girl named Abilene, to various other transient owners, before returning at last to Abilene, a very changed rabbit, finally worthy of her love. People sometimes dismiss this book as The Velveteen Rabbit retold, but seeing the constant recycling of themes in literature, thi...more
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Read in August, 2006
Somehow i seem to be reading more juvenile literature of late than i usually do--not that i'm complaining, mind you, because i'm quite enjoying it. My latest discovery (highly recommended by my co-librarians) was The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.
It is the story of a beautiful china rabbit (with real rabbit fur for his ears and tail). He was always dressed in only the best of clothes and he was highly enamoured of himself. He...more
It is the story of a beautiful china rabbit (with real rabbit fur for his ears and tail). He was always dressed in only the best of clothes and he was highly enamoured of himself. He...more
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Older elementary-Adult
What is love? How do we show love? How do we learn to love?
For Edward, the porcelain rabbit of a loving little girl, life is just as it should be. He is petted, taken care of, and adored. But appreciation, gratitude, or love for others? Edward doesn't think of these things. Until one day, when he is lost.
Kate DiCamillo takes us with Edward from the deepest part of the ocean, to a hobo camp, to a garbage dump, to the home of a very sick child.
Will Edward with his porcelain heart ...more
For Edward, the porcelain rabbit of a loving little girl, life is just as it should be. He is petted, taken care of, and adored. But appreciation, gratitude, or love for others? Edward doesn't think of these things. Until one day, when he is lost.
Kate DiCamillo takes us with Edward from the deepest part of the ocean, to a hobo camp, to a garbage dump, to the home of a very sick child.
Will Edward with his porcelain heart ...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
kids and parents of young readers
I first read "Tale of Desperaux," and wasn't overly fond of it. I admit, I liked this book more, but, I don't really like her sentence structure in general. I think there is a difference between terse, carefully chosen words, and abrupt sentences. I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Berg, who uses very simple language, and shorter sentences....and her work is BEAUTIFUL. But...Ms. Kate fall short of beautiful, and leaves me feeling like I'm reading a children's book. Now, you might be thinking.....more
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Read in February, 2008
A few of my favorite lines that i had to cry through to read
The old doll said, "i wonder who will come for me this time. Some will come. Someone always comes. Who will it be?"
"I don't care if anyone comes for me, " said Edward
"But that is dreadful, " said the doll. "There's no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You must be filled with expectancy. (great word of the year by the way if someone has not picked one!) You must be awash in ho...more
The old doll said, "i wonder who will come for me this time. Some will come. Someone always comes. Who will it be?"
"I don't care if anyone comes for me, " said Edward
"But that is dreadful, " said the doll. "There's no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You must be filled with expectancy. (great word of the year by the way if someone has not picked one!) You must be awash in ho...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
anyone
Adorable book about a very vain and selfish china rabbit that undergoes a long journey both physically and emotionally. Edward begins the story in the arms of a little girl who adores him and treats him as if he were a real person. Edward, however, is a vain and selfish rabbit that really cares nothing about the girl but only what she buys him. His favorite thing is to sit in front of the window and look out, but not because he enjoys the beauty of the outdoors, but because he loves to see hi...more
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I cannot recommend The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo highly enough! Edward Tulane is an exquisitely made china rabbit with moving joints, an entire wardrobe of clothes, a fluffy rabbit tail, posable wire ears covered with fur and whiskers of dubious origin. And although he's loved dearly by the little girl who owns and cares for him so carefully, he is heartless, vain and does not know love. However, through an accident, he and Abilene are parted and slowly, Edward is ...more
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Read in January, 2007
This book is so beautifully-written, as are all of Ms. DiCamillo's book. But this one is just outstanding, to me. It has the feel of a classic fairy tale, but it made me cry like a baby so I don't know if I'll ever be able to read it aloud to my son. I've noticed that some parents on Amazon.com HATE this book, and I just don't get it. I am hoping that I can talk someone I know into reading it to see what they think.
I guess part of me finds it relatable because Edward gets tossed around t...more
I guess part of me finds it relatable because Edward gets tossed around t...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Anastasia and Nicole
Edward! This book can safely be called a 'real charmer'. I read this through a few days of lunch breaks, and found this book deserves all the hype that surrounded it. What hype, you ask? Well, maybe I just hang out with folks hyped up about Edward Tulane. One of my favorite elements is that the author refuses to give Edward the power of movement. I feel there are many stories about toys and dolls out there that make the idea of a toy having feelings inextricable from the toy's ability to move. ...more
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avg rating (all editions): 4.28 (1913 ratings) avg rating (this edition): 4.29 (1758 ratings) number of reviews: 586popular shelves
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""Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference."
"Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene.
"Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.""
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