The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a 2006 children's novel by American author Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. It won the 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the fiction category. Scholarly readings of the book have examined it through spirituality and Christian religious studies, human development and clinical psychology.

Edward is a china rabbit given to a ten-year-old girl named Abilene by her grandmother in the 1930s, and he begins the novel as a vain but comfortable object. He goes overboard while the family is travelling on the Queen Mary and spends a long period on the ocean floor waiting to be collected, until a storm frees him and a fisherman named Lawrence pulls him out in a net. Lawrence takes him home to his wife Nellie, and the two of them call him Susannah.

From that point the book is a sequence of owners and losses, which is how the publisher frames it: a heart of the most breakable kind learning to love, to lose and to love again. The geography moves between the sea, a fisherman's house, a sick child's bedside and Memphis, and each stop changes what the rabbit understands about being cared for.