The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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author = Kate DiCamillo
cover_artist = Bagram Ibatoulline
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Young adult novel
publisher = Candlewick Press
release_date = March 2006
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 192 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-76360-776-2
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The Miraculous Adventures 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. It will be made into a 2009 film of the same name.

Plot summary

"If you have no intention of loving or being loved, then the whole journey is pointless." Edward Tulane is a porcelain rabbit given to a ten-year-old girl by her grandmother. He enjoys a pleasant but vain life with his young mistress until an unfortunate incident finds him falling overboard while vacationing on an ocean liner. After being pulled out of the dark waters by a fisherman several months later, Edward is passed from hand to hand of a succession of life-altering characters. 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. During his travels he learns the value of love and loss and the undeniable message that loving and losing is better than never having loved at all.

Allusions and references

Allusions to other works

The doll placed on the shelf next to Edward near the end of the story that tells him she is one hundred years old and is reminiscent of the main character in the 1929 novel "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years" [cite news |first=Felix |last=Carroll |title=Hitty: She's in her second hundred years |work=The Berkshire Eagle |date=2006-07-05 |accessdate=2007-10-11 ] , although Hitty is a wooden doll and not china like the one placed on the shelf with Edward.

Allusions to actual history, geography and current science

The ocean liner the Tulane family travels on (and Edward is thrown overboard from) is the "Queen Mary", both referred to in the text and seen in the color illustration in chapter six.

Awards and nominations

*2006: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in Fiction [cite news |first=Kate |last=DiCamillo |title=Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Acceptance |url=http://www.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2007/jan07_dicamillo.asp |work=The Horn Book Magazine |date=January/February 2007 |accessdate=2007-10-11 ]
*2006: Parents' Choice Awards Gold Award, Spring 2006 Fiction [cite web |url=http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=20163&award=xx&from=Candlewick%20Press |title=The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane |accessdate=2007-10-11 |publisher=Parents' Choice ]
*2006: Quill Awards Nominee, Children's Chapter Book/Middle Grade [cite web |url=http://www.thequills.org/2006.html |title=The Quill Awards - The 2006 Quills |accessdate=2007-10-11 |publisher=The Quills Literacy Foundation ]

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

New Line Cinema purchased the film adaptation rights to the story in early 2005. [cite news |first=Colin |last=Covert |title=THE BOUNCE; Who's Up, Who's Down |work=Star Tribune |date=2005-02-11 |accessdate=2007-10-11 |quote=. . . New Line has picked UP rights to her unpublished children's book "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane". ] As of summer 2007, the film is scheduled for a March 2009 theatrical release.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.edwardtulane.com/ Edward Tulane] publisher's website