#Kate DiCamillo

[sebbyisland]

On Rabbits.

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland |Kate DiCamillo - The Miraculous Adventure of Edward Tulane | @/fishofthewoods - to be a wild rabbit | Aesop's Fables - Tortoise and the Hare | Matthew Scully - Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy | A. A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh | Joseph Jastrow | Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

#Been feeling like a startled rabbit lately #I'm not sure if I did this right lol but i think i like it... #web weaving #Rabbits #quotes #poetry #ok creator tag time: #Alice in wonderland #lewis carroll #kate dicamillo #the miraculous adventure of Edward tulane #the tortoise and the hare #matthew scully #winnie the pooh #aa milne #joseph jastrow #haruki murakami #kafka on the shore #seb weaving

[nikov]

i worry that love is violence

citizen illegal, josé olivarez / angel of small death & the codeine scene, hozier / black iris, leah raeder/ r.d. laing / the tale of despereaux, kate dicamillo / litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken / blue lily, lily blue, maggie stiefvater / john my beloved, sufjan stevens / litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken / mockingjay, suzanne collins

#year:2023 #web weaving #parallels #citizen illegal #Jose olivarez #love is violence #love #blood #angel of small death & the codeine scene #hozier #black iris #Leah Raeder #rd Laing #the tale of despereaux #Kate DiCamillo #litany in which certain things are crossed out #Richard siken #blue lilly lilly blue #trc #the raven cycle #Maggie Stiefvater #john my beloved #sufjan stevens #mockingjay #hunger games #suzanne collins #the hunger games #thg

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#the tale of despereaux #kate dicamillo #childrens #fantasy #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[tobbogan-13]

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

#book #books #reading #elementary #elementary school #stonefox #the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane #the tiger rising #the land of stories #the giver #Fortunes Magic Farm #gregor the overlander #because of winn-dixie #number the stars #charlottes web #janitors #the wild robot #john Reynolds Gardiner #kate dicamillo #lois lowry #Chris colfer #suzanne collins #Suzanne selfors #eb white #Tyler Whiteside #Peter brown #my polls #polls #tumblr polls

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Kate DiCamillo, dedication of The Tale of Despereaux // Andrew Peterson, dedication of The Warden and The Wolf King

#intensely emotional about this actually #the despereaux dedication was my blog header for a really long time actually. it's always struck something very deep #like... the redemptive power of telling stories. narrators reaching out so the audience can reach back. story and the reader. #i forgot the watwk dedication is like that though. i forgot that it makes me cry. IT'S A STORY THE MAKER HAS ALWAYS TOLD #AND THE STORY MY CHILD IS TRUE. THIS ONE IS FOR YOU DEAR READER YOU'RE ALMOST HOME. #weeping #blog thesis somewhere in here mayhaps #Lu rambles #web weaving #on narratives #kate dicamillo #andrew peterson

[godzilla-reads]

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

[whatalsaid]

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

#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

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another. "

- Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

#reading together #read together #connect #connection #kate dicamillo #raymie nightingale #quote #literature #thoughts #words

[best-childhood-book]

Round 2, Poll 8: The Tale of Despereaux vs A Series of Unfortunate Events

#best childhood book #poll #the tale of despereaux #kate dicamillo #a series of unfortunate events #lemony snicket

[girlzoot]

“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

[asoftepiloguemylove]

ON LOVE THAT BURNS

Bon Iver A song for a lover of long time ago / Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie / @/ratsandillies on instagram C + M / Franny Choi Perihelion: A History of Touch / unknown / Albert Camus The Fall / Tony Belobrajdic Hands 1 / Sylvia Plath / Yan Wei / Tracie MacVean

#bon iver #a song for a lover of long time ago #kate dicamillo #because of winn dixie #franny choi #perihelion #albert camus #the fall #tony belobrajdic #hands 1 #sylvia plath #yan wei #tracie macvean #poetry #poem #web weave #on heartbreak #on loneliness #poetry parallels #parallels #poem parallels #quote #words #writing #text #painting #art #artwork #oil painting #light academia

[cheshirelibrary]

#cheshire library #kate dicamillo #love of reading #love of books

[columbosunday]

the miraculous journey of edward tulane by kate dicamillo

#archive #kate dicamillo

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

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

[carriagelamp]

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

#book review #book reviews #doctor who #christmas #winter #moomin #moominland midwinter #tove jansson #terry pratchett #hogfather #heaven official's blessing #tgcf #murderbot #ramona quimby #beverly cleary #martha wells #system collapse #the miraculous journey of edward tulane #kate dicamillo #every heart a doorway #seanan mcguire #a christmas story #bookshops & bonedust #legends & lattes #travis baldree #dnd #bellybuttons #Les Nombrils #bande desinee #chatter

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

when Kate DiCamillo wrote "The world is dark and light is precious; come closer, dear Reader, you must trust me. I am telling you a story," and "Tell me a story. Make some light," and when Peter S. Beagle wrote "As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairytales in books written by rabbits," and when Andrew Peterson wrote "The winter is whispering 'Green and gold,' and the heart is whispering too; it's a story the Maker has always told and the story, my child, is true."

#thinking about how kate's two best known novels are about the redemptive hopeful act of telling stories #because of winn-dixie's entire framework is built around india opal telling her own story #and around the stories that other people tell her. the preacher. otis. gloria. winn-dixie with his pathological fear of thunder. #the whole of the story is about people's stories #also relevant i feel like is the entire segment of les miserables dedicated to french poormen's slang??? #anyway i can't think of any winndixie quotes off the top of my head that fit into this but i CANNOT stop thinking about it #Lu rambles #words #kate dicamillo #the tale of despereaux #peter s beagle #the last unicorn #andrew peterson #the wingfeather saga #web weaving #kind of??