Tag: ulysses
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February 17, 2021
In 2012, the year before Flora and Ulysses was published, a friend and I were driving from Austin to Houston when suddenly a giant squirrel appeared on the side of the road. Squirrels had loomed large in my imagination for so long that I almost thought what I was seeing wasn’t real. But there he…
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December 29, 2020
Disney’s movie of Flora and Ulysses will stream on February 19th. In the meantime, I’ll be walking around the neighborhood putting copies of the movie tie-in book into Little Free Libraries. Getting the story of a superhero squirrel and a (not-all-that) cynical girl out into the world seems like a good way to usher out…
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July 5, 2019
At the end of Flora and Ulysses, Ulysses the squirrel thinks how he wants to write poems—poems about horsehair sofas and vacuum cleaners and broken lamps. And also, poems about little fishes. Last week, I got a letter from Sarah who is nine years old. She remarked on Ulysses’ intention to write about little fishes,…
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May 17, 2018
I keep thinking about a kid I met at the L.A. Times Book Festival. She came through the line with a copy of Flora and Ulysses and told me that it was her favorite book. I said, “Oh, thank you. Did it make you laugh?” And she said, “I laughed internally.” Which made me laugh…
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March 7, 2017
Last week, I received a box filled with translated editions of Raymie Nightingale and Flora and Ulysses and The Magician’s Elephant and Bink and Gollie. I sat down on the floor and went through the box slowly, carefully. I could not read the languages. But I knew that each book held the story of my…
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February 14, 2016
From the CWP team: Quotable Kate! Post or share if you love Flora & Ulysses. Reactions: 296 Comments: 6 Original Post