I spent a lot of it wondering if it was too much for my two little girls, particularly Pearl who tends to be very sensitive.Įdward Tulane is a china rabbit. It was heart-wrenching and beautiful and very, very sad. Which was good because at the end of every chapter I think we all wanted to know what was going to happen next. The book is short with short chapters and didn’t take us long to get through. We recently read it together as a bedtime chapter book. The girls and I have read all of the Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo and enjoyed them – they are goofy and fun – and so I thought this might make a great gift for Pearl’s 7th birthday. She wrote so beautifully about these books that I was eager to read them for myself. In her most recent essay collection, These Precious Days, Patchett details her introduction to the work of DiCamillo and how she devoured her work, even though it is written for children and Patchett has no children of her own. I bought this book for my children on the recommendation of Ann Patchett. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
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