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haveyoureadthisbook-poll · 9 days

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#The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane #kate dicamillo #childrens #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

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cosmosully · 2 months

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edward felt a pang of sorrow, deep and sweet and familiar. why did she have to be so far away?

#the miraculous journey of edward tulane #illustration #art tag #my favourite book

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tobbogan-13 · 5 months

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Kate DiCamillo and Lois Lowrey were really carrying the 3rd grade reading curriculum

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rhinestoneprincess · 9 months

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Did y’all have to read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane for school? It’s one of the best books I’ve read for school. I love this book. He’s so pretty.

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godzilla-reads · 10 months

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Not saying that every Kate DiCamillo book makes me cry, but The Tale of Despereaux? Because of Winn-Dixie? The Tiger Rising? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane? Quite a big coincidence.

#godzilla reads #kate dicamillo #the tale of despereaux #because of winn dixie #the tiger rising #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #childrens books #reading #bookworm #booklr #bookish #book blog

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whatalsaid · 4 months

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The SADDEST Children’s Book Ever Written - The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane (Animated Recap)

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#2000s kid #2000s books #2000s nostalgia #2000s kids #childhood books #scholastic #scholastic book fair #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #kate dicamillo #because of winn dixie #the tale of despereaux #edward Tulane #Youtube

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girlzoot · 3 months

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“I have already been loved,” said Edward. “I have been loved by a girl named Abilene. I have been loved by a fisherman and his wife and a hobo and his dog. I have been loved by a boy who played the harmonica and by a girl who died. Don’t talk to me about love,” he said. “I have known love.” —Kate DiCamillo/The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

#kate dicamillo #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #love #heartbreak #self reflection

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scienceisfood · 2 months

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Me openly sobbing while trying to read a story aloud to my son last night:

#sif personal #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #crying the NEXT DAY

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calebs-hangout-corner · 6 days

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This bunny is making me insane, have some character design concepts—

#the miraculous journey of edward tulane #edward tulane #burtle art #i am gnawing on him actually

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carriagelamp · 4 months

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What are the Christmas holidays for if not for being cosy and snug and reading a book? It has been a very pleasant December for me, and I've really gotten to indulge my love of reading winter themed books in winter

The Bellybuttons

A quebecois bande desinee I’ve heard about and decided to pick up the first book of — I read this one in English. It was pretty amusing! At times quite funny as it does a gag-a-page format pretty well, but also at times deeply frustrating since the series is predominantly about Karine, who is a sweet, somewhat awkward teenaged girl, and the rather nasty popular girls she’s “friends” with. Karine acts as a foil and a general punching bag for most of the book. It does make her standing up for herself at the end of the album deeply satisfying. A worthwhile read if you enjoyed Mean Girls and would like that in a comic format.

Bookshops & Bonedust

A prequel to Legends & Lattes that I’ve been very eagerly anticipating! In this book Viv is just beginning her career as a mercenary but has been laidlow by a injury. Forced to stay behind in a seaside town while her leg heals, she gradually gets drawn into the lives of the various town residents, including a beleaguered ratkin who’s desperately trying to keep her little bookshop afloat. Add in a dash of baked goods and necromantic plots, and it’s a really fun read! If you haven’t read the original yet, I highly recommend both it and this one.

A Christmas Story

I love this movie and only just realized it was originally based off a series of radio stories that were adapted into print. If you are unfamiliar with the Christmas film, it follows the Parker family through a series of mundane misadventures on the build up to Christmas, including Ralphie’s desperate need to get a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas.

This book, A Christmas Story, collects a handful of stories from two different anthologies that were used when creating the iconic movie. It’s fun how many lines are word-for-word from the original stories; they’re all hilarious and the language is just fantastic. Hard to put down.

Every Heart a Doorway

A fascinating short story about a boarding school for the “chosen ones” who have returned from whatever magical world drew them in and then spat them back out. It’s a school of children who have learnt to survive in strange worlds built around strange, incomprehensible rules and who must now learn to re-adapt to the mundane world. They are all desperate to get back, to find their own doorways, and struggle with being trapped back in a world that doesn’t understand them. Things only get worse when the murders start.

Hogfather

One of my favourite Discworld novels. On the Discworld, it’s a boar-themed entity known as the Hogfather that travels around the world delivering presents to boys and girls on Hogwatchnight. Except this year something has happened. The Hogfather is nowhere to be found, and someone else has been forced to take his place. With Death now attempting to deliver holiday cheer, and his granddaughter reluctantly drawn into unravelling a plot on the Hogfather’s life, this is easily one of my favourite “Christmas” books to read. And the ending always hits me like a ton of bricks, it makes me really emotionally. Highly recommend the read, even if you’ve never touched a Discworld book before. As long as you like high fantasy and can suspend disbelief, it’s easy to jump into.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

So, this book absolutely destroyed me. Would recommend. I love this author, and this novel did not disappoint. It’s about a hand-crafted, specially commissioned, porcelain rabbit doll named Edward Tulane. Edward Tulane, with his exquisite wardrobe and delicate features, is beautiful and precious and he knows it. He doesn’t care anything for the little girl who loves him and resents her family who patronizes him. Everything changes for Edward Tulane though when, during a sea voyage, he is thrown overboard and finds himself separated from his girl and lost to the black silence of the ocean floor…

Moominland Midwinter

Magical and chilling, this book really understands and articulates the other side of the winter season. The longest nights of the year, the darkness, the cold, the way the entire world sleeps and changes and becomes strange.

Moomins always hibernate through the winter, but this year little Moomintroll wakes up early. He finds himself completely alone in the middle of winter while his family sleeps around him. He’s forced to venture forth and learn about this dark, strange season, to find the friends he can and come to terms with the harsh strangeness of winter while waiting for the sun to return.

A Mouse Called Miika

A very middling book. There is a mouse who lives in the North Pole. He likes cheese. He has a very unpleasant friend. He gets magical powers of some sort or another. He tries to steal a very important cheese. I genuinely don’t remember the plot well enough to go in any more detail. If you’re desperate to read something Christmassy, it’s not bad, but I wouldn’t bother seeking it out.

Beezus and Ramona // Ramona and her Mother

You know, I’ve never in my life read a Ramona book. I’ve read and enjoyed other Beverly Cleary books, but never the Ramona series. I ended up reading Ramona and her Mother first and afterwards I picked up Beezus and Ramona just to see how the series began. I can… see why it’s popular, especially for the time. It’s a fun, silly, slice-of-life series about the wacky hijinks of Ramona Quimby, a rambunctious kindergartener. I can really, genuinely say though that this is not a series made for me. Ramona and her Mother I found agonizingly dull, with only a few interesting moments interspersed. Beezus and Ramona was a bit more interesting, but they made Ramona so incredibly annoying that I could hardly get through it. Maybe part of the blame lies in me listening to an audiobook for that one and the narrator using the single most grating voice I have eve heard in my life, but my god it drove me nuts.

System Collapse

New Murderbot book! New Murderbot book!! Woohoo! If you haven’t read the Murderbot series, go start on All Systems Red and continue from there, you won’t regret it! The series follows a synthetic being known as a Security Unit — an artificial construct that isn’t meant to be self-aware or self-governing, except that they are. When Murderbot succeeds in hacking its governor module and gaining full control of itself, it briefly considers going on a murderous rampage… until it realizes it’s much more enjoyable to just download a lot of soap operas into its brain and get on with things. In this new book, Murderbot continues on a mission with ART’s crew and those from Preservation. Things are heating up as Barish-Estranza attempts to take control of the planet, new SecUnits have been deployed, and there may or may not be a rampant alien plague. Worse yet, something is wrong with Murderbot, related to [REDACTED]. If it can’t figure out how to fix what’s wrong soon, its humans may soon be in peril.

Heaven Official's Blessing v5

I continue to read Heaven Official’s Blessing! I continue to love it! The desperate scramble towards Mount Tonglu has been a blast. I’m getting Very Concerned about what may or may not be the return of the White Calamity though… whatever is going on and whatever it is, everything seems like it’s heating up to some serious bad news in the next book.

Twelve Doctors of Christmas

An alright anthology of Christmas-themed Doctor Who stories. If you want something Christmassy and you want Doctor Who, this delivers. It’s festive, light, and has a few pretty good stories in it. However I wouldn’t say it was my favourite Doctor Who short story anthology by a long shot. Time Lord Fairy Tales or 13 Doctors 13 Stories are both more impressive story collections imho

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bobthebobking · 2 years

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“Once, there was a china rabbit who was loved by a little girl. The rabbit went on an ocean journey and fell overboard and was rescued by a fisherman. He was buried under garbage and unburied by a dog. He traveled for a long time with the hoboes and worked for a short time as a scarecrow.

Once, there was a rabbit who loved a little girl and watched her die.

The rabbit danced on the streets of Memphis. His head was broken open in a diner and was put together again by a doll mender.

And the rabbit swore that he would not make the mistake of loving again. Once there was a rabbit who danced in a garden in springtime with the daughter of the woman who had loved him at the beginning of his journey. The girl swung the rabbit as she danced in circles. Sometimes, they went so fast, the two of them, that it seemed as if they were flying. Sometimes, it seemed as if they both had wings.

Once, oh marvelous once, there was a rabbit who found his way home.”

#the miraculous journey of edward tulane #happy fun time with good ol bob #please i am losing my mind thinking about legend as edward like he's just so sad and scared of love and then AAAAAAA sobbing #doesnt even rlly need to be Iu u could probably fill it out with charas from his games KJGND

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edlboetie · 1 year

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Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me.

- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo

#kate dicamillo #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #children's literature #quotes

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savechangesto-untitled · 8 months

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I assigned one of my small groups to read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo in speech last week. I had read it as a kid (maybe 10 or 11) but I didn’t really remember much of it, I found it boring at the time and didn’t really “get it”. Last year I reread Because of Winn Dixie with my speech kids and was amazed at how much better that book is, re reading as an adult, than I remembered as a kid. So I decided to give Edward Tulane another spin.

Oh my fucking god. I started reading ahead at work yesterday, then spent last night and this morning finishing reading this goddamn sad china rabbit book.

The depth of the emotions in this children’s book is just heart wrenching. I mean the whole dust bowl/Great Depression backdrop was completely lost on me as a kid. As was the sadness of the old fisherman’s wife whose children had died, gone to war, or become cruel adults. This book is devastatingly sad in a way that only children’s books can be sad. I mean look at these illustrations.

THEY CRUCIFIED THE RABBIT FOR CHRIST SAKE

And don’t get me started on the existential horror of the rabbit being permanently and constantly conscious with no control over his surroundings or body, completely at the whim of his environment. Just constantly, awake, conscious, watching the days and years pass him by as he waits, seeing only whatever his head is pointed at, at the bottom of the ocean or in a dump or on a shelf. “There is real time and there is doll time. You, my fine friend, have entered doll time.” That line chilled me to the core as much as any Stephen King book.

This children’s book is about abject cruelty, the power of love, the passage of time, and devastating loss. I hope to god I can convey at least half of the impact and emotions to these kids as we read it this year.

#kate dicamillo #rabbit #Children’s literature #Edward Tulane #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #ya fiction #young adult fiction #young adult

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do-you-know-this-play · 1 month

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#the miraculous journey of edward tulane #kate dicamillo #dwayne hartford #theatre #theater #plays #tumblr polls

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niconebula · 1 year

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“You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together. I have been loved, Edward told the stars.

So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?”

#the miraculous journey of edward tulane #ive been waiting to make something including this for a certain son of mine #isnt it PERFECT ugh i love edward tulane

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godzilla-reads · 1 year

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“How many times, Edward wondered, would he have to leave without getting the chance to say goodbye?”

—The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

#godzilla reads #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #kate dicamillo #bunny books #books and bunnies #childrens books #book quotes #booklr #bookworm #bookish #book blog

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