Here is an actual review.
At last, my homeschooling friends are exclaiming, she writes something we can really use!
Hey, now. Go easy on the poor woman who’s been wiping up pee all morning. (We have shelved the potty training project, by the way. Yet I digress.)
The audio version of Kate DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane has been released and it’s just wonderful. No surprises there, really. We love Kate DiCamillo’s writing.
I’m pretty sure you do, too.
So this Edward Tulane is a self-absorbed china rabbit who accidentally gets tossed into the sea. That is just the beginning. From there he is owned (though the proper word might be “taught”) by several people: a kindly fisherman and his wife, a hobo, a dying little girl and her brother.
You’re guessing his journey is not just geographical and you’re right.
Anyway. Now you know to look for Edward Tulane at the library. The running time is 2 hours, more or less, and Judith Ivey reads the story with warmth and much dramatic flair.
Oh, to be able to the voices the way these actors do! I’m always ever so slightly jealous of all the voices.
Well, in any case this audio books give Momma’s voice a break and that’s a plus.
Tell me: do you do all the voices?
I definitely try! I think it’s so fun (for me and the kids), and it helps keep me from falling asleep and reading words that aren’t even on the page…a trait I think I inherited from my own mom!
Not too long ago, I was reading my daughter a book (something about magical ballet slippers) and there were 5 different little ballerinas to voice. When I got to the 4th one, I tried for something totally different and came out with something like Sesame Street’s Grover.
However you’d describe it, my daughter and I both broke up in complete hysterics–it took about 5 minutes to regain our composure. Then when my son got home, (and every reading since) I had to try to duplicate it….hard on the vocal folds, for sure!
Thanks for the review…and your WONDERFUL blog. It’s one of the few I check every chance I get!
Haven’t heard of this author! What age group would you suggest, or is it one of those wonderful ones that span all ages?
Thanks for the info!
DH does voices… not me so much. I try, but am not as good. (or so I’m told)
Of course I do voices! I do it when I lector at Mass, too, though I try really hard not to. I know it’s not expected, but conversations between God and angry Jews just beg for voices! I always get compliments on my reading, so I guess it’s okay.
‘Meg: Kate DiCamillo is great for all ages, in my opinion, with the exception maybe of The Tiger Rising, which got a little dark at times.
I don’t usually give my gang a choice, however! 🙂 The little ones suffer through the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the big kids, Ramona the Brave!
Except, who doesn’t love Ramona?
If I am not too tired, or don’t have a migraine (I get a lot of those lately…need my eyes checked, I think), and I like the story, I do voices. My DH is much better about doing the voices, and sometimes even movements for each character. My youngest is reading now, and sometimes he SINGS the story…..
We so do all the voices!
Thank you for this – we’ve just put it on hold at the library!
We LOVED Despereaux!!!