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Flora & Ulysses The Illuminated Adventures

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One of our Books of the Year 2014 - Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Book Award 2014- Winner of the IBW Children's Award 2014

Chosen by our Guest Editor for October 2023, Jennifer Killick, as one of her must-reads:  This book is so weird and funny and charming and perfectly voiced. It has my favourite last page of any book ever.

 

Award-winning Kate diCamillo tells a zany, bitter sweet story of how Flora Belle Buckman, a self-declared cynic, rescues a squirrel from the neighbour’s super-powered vacuum cleaner and, in doing so, finds herself on a journey of discovery. Ulysses the squirrel’s escapade seems to invest it with super powers – including the ability to type - while the appearance of William Spiver, the neighbour’s great great-nephew who has a passion for words, gives Flora a friend. Flora’s journey of self discovery is highly entertaining.

Guardian Children's Fiction Book Award Judge Frank Cottrell Boyce said: “Squirrel acquires superpowers after collision with lawn mower - you KNOW you want to know more.”

Describing the process of writing the book, Kate DiCamillo says, “There is a line from the thirteenthcentury poet Rumi that I kept close by as I worked on this novel: The grief armies assemble, but I’m not going with them. For me, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures is a book about joy and laughter, about moving away from grief and turning toward love.  Additionally, it is a book about seal blubber.”

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