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Chapters 1 - 3

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: DiCamillo, Kate. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Candlewick Press, 2006. First edition.

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a children’s novel about vanity, love, hope, loss, and redemption.

• The novel is related from the perspective of a third-person narrator with limited focus on the character of Edward, a three-foot-tall china rabbit.

• Edward has the ability to think but does not have capability of movement or speech.

• When Edward is introduced in Chapter 1, he lives in a house on Egypt Street in an unnamed American town.

• Edward belongs to a ten-year-old girl named Abilene Tulane. Abilene loves Edward very much and dotes on him daily, changing his extravagant and well-made clothing, talking to him, and winding his watch every day as she leaves for school.

• Edward is very vain and his...

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