One Book a Day - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Paperback (Candlewick Dec. 8, 2015)

What is love? Do we see it, smell it, feel it or hear it?

The heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.
--from "The Testing-Tree," by Stanley Kunitz

This story written by Kate DiCamillo is one of my favorite. Edward Tulane felt little when he lost Abilene.

There was no sadness, nor happiness or anything.

What is love? When is no love, nothing's able to reach to your heart, and to Edward, though he was made of china, he was never hurt.

When his heart starts to break, he feels love...

It's okay to feel sad when leaving someone, because that's love...

Sweetness and happiness never come so true without sadness.