This bunny is making me insane, have some character design concepts—
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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.
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hey sorry man i can't go out today im paralyzed by thoughts of a china rabbit who was tossed overboard a ship and learned to love :/
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@godzilla-reads 2023 reading challenge
For May I read Kate DiCamillo’s, “A Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” a cute kids book! 4/5 stars!
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Miraculoasa călătorie a lui Edward Tulane | Recenzie literară
Recunosc că nu eram încântată de această carte până spre sfârșit, dar ultimele capitole m-au convins să îi ofer un punctaj maxim; este cu siguranță genul de poveste pe care mi-ar plăcea să i-o citesc copilului meu înainte de culcare.
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edward felt a pang of sorrow, deep and sweet and familiar. why did she have to be so far away?
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first date tonight. chanting "You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.” over and over and over again while i wash my hair.
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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.
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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
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Me openly sobbing while trying to read a story aloud to my son last night:
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