{"id":21309,"date":"2013-11-22T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=21309"},"modified":"2013-11-18T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:25:05","slug":"flora-and-ulysses-by-kate-dicamillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/flora-and-ulysses-by-kate-dicamillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"floraandulysses\"<\/a>Holy Bagumba!<\/p>\n

Flora and Ulysses<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kate DiCamillo is delightful! \u00a0I was smitten with this charming, smart middle grade novel from page one. \u00a0DiCamillo (Tale of Despereaux<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Because of Winn Dixie<\/strong><\/em><\/a>) is joined by illustrator K.G. Campbell to bring to life Flora Belle Buckman, a natural-born cynic in the body of a tween girl. \u00a0Armed with an extensive vocabulary, an abundance of comic book knowledge, and an eye for the truth, Flora makes for a wonderful heroine.<\/p>\n

But she wouldn’t see herself as the hero of this tale. \u00a0The hero (I mean, superhero) is Ulysses, a squirrel who acquires the abilities to write poetry and fly after being sucked up by Flora’s neighbor Tootie Tickman’s \u00a0Ulysses Super-Suction, Mult-Terrain 2000X vacuum. \u00a0The story that follows includes a terrifying cat, temporary blindness, a shepherdess lamp, an unexpected villain, a giant doughnut, and much more.<\/p>\n

While this comic book\/chapter book hybrid is funny and silly, it is also very sweet. \u00a0The examination of changing mother-daughter dynamics as girls grow up is so beautifully executed and subtle that readers may not notice it until they’ve finished reading. \u00a0Flora and Ulysses<\/strong><\/em> is a great read for loyal readers of Kate DiCamillo and fans of Liar and Spy<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Rebecca Stead and Fortunately, the Milk<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>by Neil Gaiman (or, really, anyone!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holy Bagumba! Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo is delightful! \u00a0I was smitten with this charming, smart middle grade novel from page one. \u00a0DiCamillo (Tale of Despereaux, Because of Winn Dixie) is joined by illustrator K.G. Campbell to bring to life Flora Belle Buckman, a natural-born cynic in the body[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[2484,2482,2483,2084,968,2485],"class_list":["post-21309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-comic-books","tag-kate-dicamillo","tag-middle-grade-fiction","tag-mother-daughter-relationships","tag-squirrels","tag-tween"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5xH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21309"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions\/21358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}