After reading Flora and Ulysses, I decided I HAD to pick up Dicamillo's other Newberry winning book. Like the former, it is cast with lovable misfits and told with such humor and heart. It felt like an updated version of a fable that has been passed down for generations. The themes on love, duty, individuality and belonging are timeless and this is a beautifully written classic that will stand the test of time. "There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman."
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