By Kate DiCamillo, Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline

Category: Juvenile Fiction (Ages 7-8), Classics
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Format: Hardcover, 198 pages, Illustrated
Pub Date: February 2006
Price: $18.99
ISBN: 0763625892

From the Publisher:

“Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart. . . .”

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.

And then, one day, he was lost.

Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes’ camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle—that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.

Kate DiCamillo lives in Minneapolis, where she faithfully writes two pages a day, five days a week. “E. B. White said, ‘All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world,’ ” she says. “That’s the way I feel too.”