Tag: ulysses
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September 8, 2015
I was at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. over the weekend. I had finished my book signing session, and I was just getting up to leave the table when a boy came running over with his copy of Flora and Ulysses. “I need you to sign this because I loved Incandesto and the…
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April 30, 2015
Remember how I said that I never make it through the mail without laughing and crying? From Janie in Atlanta: “I have been wondering what happened to Opal. Did she find her mom? Maybe you have an answer you just didn’t put in the book.” From Jacob, Beth and Arlene (son, mother and grandmother) in…
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January 27, 2015
If you had told me when I was a kid that two characters from a book I wrote would appear on a poster celebrating the joy of reading, I would not have believed you. But here is the poster. Here are Flora and Ulysses. Stories are superpowers. Read. Reactions: 1.4K Comments: 70 Original Post
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December 9, 2014
In the mailbag: a letter from a third grader named Gaby who lives in Katy, Texas. Gaby just finished reading Flora and Ulysses. She said that she liked how the “characters’ feelings change.” She also liked the comics. “Even though they are in black and white, they are full of color in my mind. The…
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April 1, 2014
Some of my favorite letters from readers have been delightfully inventive. For instance, there was the young girl who said, “And remember when Edward Tulane and that old, cracked-face doll got married? That was a good time.” And the boy who said that he loved the part where Winn-Dixie went running off and never came…
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October 22, 2013
In Flora and Ulysses, The Illuminated Adventures, there is a lamp named Mary Ann. On my desk, there is a lamp. The lamp is a gift from a friend who read Flora and Ulysses and thought that I needed my own Mary Ann. Every morning when I turn this lamp on, I think of the…