Tag: tulane
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April 15, 2020
From Candlewick: Who wants to join a virtual book club meeting with Kate?! Our friends at Wordplay are hosting an online event next Tuesday, 4/21 at 3 p.m. CT to feature Kate reading and discussing The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. The Crowdcast registration is full BUT we will also stream it to Kate’s Facebook…
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March 16, 2020
Edward Tulane, over the course of his journey, spends a lot of time waiting. He waits for Abilene to return home from school. He is lost at the bottom of the sea for 297 days. He spends what seems like an eternity on the shelf of a doll shop. As you surely know by now,…
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January 14, 2020
Last Friday night, I did an event with The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina and on Saturday afternoon, I was with Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina. I heard so many stories this trip—stories that made me cry, stories that gave me hope, stories that made me put down my pen and…
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December 23, 2019
From a fourth grader named Kalli. “Now, I will tell you what the book Edward Tulane is about. It is about love and how the rabbit named Edward Tulane discovers it and that is what we all need to do in this life is get thrown overboard and sink to the bottom of the ocean…
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October 10, 2019
Bagram Ibatoulline’s original art for the cover of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is framed and hanging on my living room wall. A few days ago, I had a guy in to do some work on the house and as we stood in the living room, he nodded at the art and said, “I…
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June 12, 2019
I was in line at the post office when the woman next to me said, “You wrote that Edward book, didn’t you?” “Edward Tulane?” I said. “Yep. I read that book to my third graders this year and I couldn’t read the last chapter out loud. I was crying too hard. One of my kiddos…