The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Read by Felix

I wanted to blog about my last book report, because I read (for the hundredth time) one of my most favorite books: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. I read for another two hours. So there is this fancy porcelain bunny rabbit doll named Edward Tulane. He is very expensive and fancy, and thinks very highly of himself. He really disliked people, like they were below him. He had a fancy gold pocket watch, and his doting owner Abilene (whom he looks at as a sort of maid) tells him that she will be home from school every day when the short hand hits the three, and the tall hand hits twelve. Abilene's grandmother, Pellegrina, tells her a story one night about a princess who could not love and ended up being turned to a pig and eaten. She gives Edward a special look, as if the story should apply to him somehow. Soon after the whole family goes on a cruise ship. Edward is thrown off by some boys also on the ship and lands at the bottom of the ocean, leaving his pocket watch on the ship with Abilene. He waits there for weeks and weeks until he's found by an old fisherman. At being found, he changes slightly: He feels glad to be alive, off the bottom of the ocean. The fisherman, Lawrence, takes him home to his old wife, Nellie. Nellie names him Susanna, cleans him, and makes him a dress. At first this horrifies him, but he decides it doesn't make any difference. Nellie tells him stories of her children, one who died of pneumonia at five and some grown with successful jobs. Edward never cared about what humans said before, but now he found himself clinging to every word Nellie said. Every night, Lawrence takes him outside on his shoulder and smokes his pipe and points out the constellations. Before bed, Nellie sings a lullaby. But one day, Nellie's not-so-great daughter Lolly comes by and throws him away. In the book it says, "For the first time, Edward's heart called out to him. It said two words: Nellie. Lawrence."

After weeks of being buried under a huge mountain of trash, a dog named Lucy digs Edward up and delivers him to a hobo named Bull. Edward Tulane becomes Malone. He is cleaned, changed from a ragged dress to a shirt made of a hat and some pants made of a handkerchief, and lives for a while in happiness with hobos that tell him stories and secrets. One night, Lucy and Bull and Edward/Malone hitch a ride on a train. A worker from the train kicks Lucy in the side and Edward wishes he could defend the dog. The man throws Edward way far off the train. His heart speaks again: Lucy. Bull. He wishes for the first time that he could cry.

This is all I've read so far. This book is one of my definite favorites because I love how Edward slowly, slowly learns to love, a little more with each of his different owners. I would recommend it to anybody.