Flora is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero.
After rescuing a squirrel she names Ulysses.
It, is about 10-year-old Flora, an avid comic book fan and a self-avowed cynic, whose parents have recently separated. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. So, Disney’s Flora & Ulysses is a comedy-adventure based on the Newbery Award-winning book. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. Born in Philadelphia but raised in the South, Kate DiCamillo now lives in Minneapolis, where she faithfully writes two pages a day, five days a. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. And Kate DiCamillo’s second Newbery Medal winner, Flora & Ulysses, was released in 2013 to great acclaim, garnering five starred reviews and an instant spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Quiescit Anima Libris The soul (spirit) finds respite in books. She saves Ulysses’s life, and together they defeat their enemies and solve all of their problems even the seemingly mundane ones: family conflict resolution, for one. In libris libertas In books (there is) freedom. And Flora, formerly only a silent witness of heroism through her reading, becomes an active superhero in her own right.
Helluo librorum A glutton for books (bookworm). Flora and Ulysses, stars of the eponymous 2014 Newbery Medal-winning book by Kate DiCamillo, praise the power of reading on this poster illustrated by K. Story: It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. Flora and Ulysses, stars of the eponymous 2014 Newbery Medal-winning book by Kate DiCamillo, praise the power of reading on this bookmark illustrated by K. A drop drills a rock by falling not twice, but many times so too is a human made smart by reading not two, but many books. BRAND NEW LOOKING, TRUE FIRST PRINTING: DJ DOES NOT HAVE THE NEWBERY MEDAL ON IT.