What a wonderful book. A little girl named Abilene loses her dear Rabbit, Edward. His adventures open his heart. He learns to love.
It made me cry. (Tears of happiness!) This is a good choice for a class to read together and discuss. ( )

Like an update of the Velveteen Rabbit, this story is about a toy learning about love and loss. There is so much despair in this story (including the death of a sick child) but it is heartwarming in the end.

My daughter's 3rd-grade teacher read it aloud to the class, so I gave it a re-read and realized I'd never written a review. She said her classmates liked the part with the hobo. ( )

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.

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.