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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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bookshelves: 2006, award-various, bage-middle-grade, genre-fantasy, genre-drama-tragedy, genre-travel, sub-sea, want-to-own, z-kate-dicamillo
Jun 04, 2020
bookshelves: 2006, award-various, bage-middle-grade, genre-fantasy, genre-drama-tragedy, genre-travel, sub-sea, want-to-own, z-kate-dicamillo
Typically, I adore everything Kate does. I thought this was a good story, but not one of her great stories. I didn't feel for Edward the way I normally do for her characters.
Edward is a porcelain toy rabbit. He doesn't appreciate being so well loved by his little girl until one day he's thrown overboard on a sea voyage and his miraculous journey begins. It's the type of book that he does get back to where he started after all hope seems lost.
The tone of the book felt melancholy to me. I never really cared about Edward for some reason. I guess I'm getting jaded in my older age. I knew when starting that he would make it back to his owner somehow and there were no stakes for me. I'm usually willing to go on the journey. I still thought it was a cute story, well done.
This is a great story for children and I still recommend it. I guess, I simply expected too much from it.
Edward is a porcelain toy rabbit. He doesn't appreciate being so well loved by his little girl until one day he's thrown overboard on a sea voyage and his miraculous journey begins. It's the type of book that he does get back to where he started after all hope seems lost.
The tone of the book felt melancholy to me. I never really cared about Edward for some reason. I guess I'm getting jaded in my older age. I knew when starting that he would make it back to his owner somehow and there were no stakes for me. I'm usually willing to go on the journey. I still thought it was a cute story, well done.
This is a great story for children and I still recommend it. I guess, I simply expected too much from it.
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“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
― The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Reading Progress
August 24, 2015
– Shelved
August 24, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
June 3, 2020
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Started Reading
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
2006
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
award-various
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
bage-middle-grade
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
genre-fantasy
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
genre-drama-tragedy
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
genre-travel
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
sub-sea
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
want-to-own
June 4, 2020
– Shelved as:
z-kate-dicamillo
June 4, 2020
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Finished Reading
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May 21, 2021 06:58AM
Totally agree with your review. Even by the end, I still did not care for Edward.
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Lori wrote: "Totally agree with your review. Even by the end, I still did not care for Edward."Lori, Interesting. I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't relate to Edward.
Kelia wrote: "This was a helpful review for me because I’m now interested in reading more of Kate’s works. I liked this book even though it is quite sad, so I’ll be looking into her other stories."Kelia, I think Kate is a wonderful author and I love her works. I need to catch up on her latest stuff. I've been out of the MG world for a while.
