| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | |
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| Author(s) | Kate DiCamillo |
| Cover artist | Bagram Ibatoulline |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Candlewick Press |
| Publication date | March 30, 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 192pp |
| ISBN | 0763625892 |
| OCLC Number | 41601218 |
| LC Classification | PZ7.D5455 Be 2000 |
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a 2006 novel by Kate DiCamillo. Following the life of a china rabbit, the book won the 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in Fiction.
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The theme can be summarized by a quote from the book: "If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless." (p. 189) Edward Tulane is a china rabbit given to a seven-year-old girl named Abilene by her grandmother. He enjoys a pleasant but vain life with his young mistress, who treats him with the utmost love and respect, until an unfortunate incident finds him falling overboard while vacationing on an ocean liner. Edward spends 297 days in the ocean's depths, until a passing [[fisherman and his buddy pulls him free.The man takes him home to his wife where he is renamed and forced to where dresses. [1] Edward is passed from hand to hand of a succession of life-altering characters, such as a hobo and a girl with pneumonia and her brother. Edward's journeys not only take him far from home, but even farther from the selfish rabbit he once was. Edward is eventually cruelly broken against a counter top edge and then repaired and offered for sale in a doll store for several years, and is finally bought by the same mistress he once knew, but now older and more mature.