As mentioned briefly here, I am joining Amber at The Literary Wife in an informal reading challenge of sorts as we read and blog our way through  the top 100 children’s books as voted on by readers of Elizabeth Bird’s A Fuse #8 Production.

DiCamillo, Kate.(2006).  The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.  Somerset, MA: Candlewick Press.  ISBN: 9780763625894

This is the first book on the top 100 list that is not a reread for me, and maybe that is the problem.  The entire time I was reading it, I kept going from one extreme to another, I don’t like it, I like it, I don’t like it.  Perhaps that is a sign that I need to read it again?  It is definitely old-fashioned, but that has never been a problem for me before.  Maybe it is the fable-like qualities, in some cases they seem very blunt and obvious to me.  Most of all though, I think it is the fact that it reminds me of other books I loved so much, especially Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field and The Holly and the Ivy by Rumer Godden.  I don’t think this is necessarily bad, but it leaves me wanting to run to the library and check those books out, rather than reading Edward again.

For another point of view, you can read what Amber at The Literary Wife thought about Edward and his journey here.

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