|
|
Because of Winn-Dixie (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Kate DiCamillo
| Category:
Award-winning, Fiction, Ages 9-12, Children's books |
| Market price: ¥ 88.00
MSL price:
¥ 78.00
[ Shop incentives ]
|
| Stock:
Pre-order item, lead time 3-7 weeks upon payment [ COD term does not apply to pre-order items ] |
MSL rating:
 Good for Gifts |
MSL Pointer Review:
An unforgettable first novel about coming of age one sweet summer-and learning to love what you have.
|
| If you want us to help you with the right titles you're looking for, or to make reading recommendations based on your needs, please contact our consultants. |
Detail |
Author |
Description |
Excerpt |
Reviews |
|
|
|
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick; Reprint edition
Pub. in: August, 2001
ISBN: 0763616052
Pages: 192
Measurements: 6.9 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00406
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0763616052
|
|
Rate this product:
|
|
- Awards & Credential -
The winner of Newbery Honor book. |
|
- MSL Picks -
"Because of Winn Dixie", by Kate DiCamillo was a fabulous book that is a Newberry Medal winner. It is a childrens book, so it's a very easy read that both children and adults will enjoy. This book is not action packed, or keeps you at the edge of your seat, but is definatly one that captures your attention and is very enjoying.
This book is about a 10 year old girld named India Opal Buloni but her dad calls her Opal after his mother. It starts with her moving from her home town where she had lots of friends, to a new town where she didnt know a single person. She lives with her dad who she calls the preacher because that is his job. That is why they moved to the small town of Naomi Florida. Her dad was to Become a preacher at the Open Arms Baptist Church of Naomi. She didn't have a mother. Her mom left her and her dad when she was just three years old. No one has ever seen her since.
Opal was at the store one day getting groceries for her dad, and a dog was in the store knocking everything over. The store manager was furious and almost called the pound when Opal yelled out "that's my dog". She wasn't quite sure why she said it but it just came out. She felt sorry for the dog. He was big and smelly, and his hair was dirty and patches were missing. He was a stray but Opal said he was her own. The store manager asked what the dogs name was and Opal said the first thing that came to her mind. She said the dogs name was Winn- Dixie after the grocery store they were in.
She went on home with Winn-Dixie following her. She asked the Preacher if she could keep the dog and he said she could. Winn-Dixie was hers. He was the best dog in the world. He was the only dog who smiled really big with his teeth. Opal and the dog became best friends and grew a very strong, loving relationship where they had to be together always. Winn-Dixie even goes to church and to the library with her. But still Opal felt very lonely. She missed her mom more and more every day. She made great friends with the librarian, Otis the man she worked for, and this old lady who all the kids swore was a witch.
This book is a very loving story that has it's ups and it's downs. It is very emotional at times and you really gain a strong love for the girl and her dog.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 8
|
|
- Better with -
Better with
Dear Mr. Henshaw (rpkg) (HarperClassics) (Paperback)
:
|
|
Customers who bought this product also bought:
 |
Dear Mr. Henshaw (rpkg) (HarperClassics) (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Beverly Cleary (Author) , Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
This Newbery Medal-winning book, exhibits a subtlety and sensitivity that will be appreciated by any youngster who feels lonely and troubled during the transition into adolescence. |
 |
Walk Two Moons (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Sharon Creech
The Newbery Award winning Walk Two Moons is a combination of beautifully written stories that unite to provide readers with insights into their own lives and the lives of others with regard to adolescence and grief. |
 |
Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books) (Mass Market Paperback) (Paperback)
by Lois Lowry
During the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. |
 |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Mildred D. Taylor
It is a book about one family's struggle to survive during a time of extreme racial conflict and segregation in rurual Mississippi of the 1930s. This is the perfect literature for teaching students about the racial discrimination and cruelty that black families faced with vivid story showing the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence. |
 |
Homer Price (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics) (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Robert McCloskey (Illustrator)
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage. |
|
|
Kate DiCamillo is the author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (a Newbery Honor book), THE TIGER RISING (a National Book Award finalist), and THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (winner of the 2003 Newbery Medal). She has recently completed a series of early chapter books about a pig named Mercy Watson. Her latest novel, THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE, was published by Candlewick Press in 2006. She lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
|
|
The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket-and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.
Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship-and forgiveness-can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.
Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.
|
| View all 8 comments |
Karen Hesse (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-15 00:00>
Take one disarmingly engaging protagonist and put her in the company of a tenderly rendered canine, and you've got yourself a recipe for the best kind of down-home literary treat. Kate DiCamillo's voice in Because of Winn-Dixie should carry from the steamy, sultry pockets of Florida clear across the miles to enchant young readers everywhere. |
Rachel Elaine (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-15 00:00>
After hearing about this book and the movie based on the story, I finally decided to read it and found the book to be a sweet and enjoyable page-turner. An adult can easily read it within a couple of hours and appreciate its light and sometimes humorous fare as a change of pace from their probable, typical reading selections. As told from the perspective of a ten-year old girl, the story is relate-able for children but refreshing for any age or gender.
"Just about everything that happened to me that summer, happened because of Winn-Dixie." (the beginning sentence of Chapter Nine) The author, obviously knowing dogs and their behaviors and characteristics, begins this story with a stray and mangy dog, Winn-Dixie, adopted by a little girl and her father, who just moved into the town. The different characters of the story, in some ways, like Winn-Dixie, became transformed when they "adopted" each other as they joined together and found their way out of sadness, isolation, loss or loneliness.
With good points made about love and becoming less judgmental, I thought this was an idyllic and charming story.
|
Robert Beveridge (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-15 00:00>
Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie (Candlewick, 2000)
My sister-in-law (who is ten) picked this up at Borders one day last week, and while she, my wife, and my daughter were off shopping, I picked it up. I had it finished by the time sister-in-law left that evening; it's a very quick read.
Like most people, I guess, I assumed that the book (and the rather successful, if released to mixed reviews, movie based upon it) was about the grocery store chain, and wondered to what depths corporate America wouldn't sink. What a pleasant surprise to find out Winn-Dixie is actually a dog (named after the grocery store chain, so I'm still wondering about corporations and depths, but at least they were half-subtle about it if there's a marketing conspiracy to be had here). The story concerns Opal, a new girl in town, who adopts a stray dog after he gets inside a Winn-Dixie supermarket where she's doing some shopping. The dog, being a naturally affectionate sort, helps her get socialized in her new situation.
It's a simple story, aimed at the 9-12 crowd, and wonderfully written. DiCamillo conveys the characters' emotions without beating us over the head with them, and so crafts a far more powerful tale than most in this genre. Highly recommended. |
Glenn Harden (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-15 00:00>
This is a heartwarming story of how a little community of lonely people forms around a friendly and ugly stray dog. All of the characters possess a bit of wisdom of their own, but as they come together in friendship they all grow a bit. At the heart of the story, however, is the relationship between a father and daughter who are both dealing with deep pain resulting from their wife/mother having abandoned them seven years earlier. The book chronicles their movement toward hope and redemption with the help of that friendly dog. Even adults risk some moist eyes, but dog-lovers need not fear (too much). I highly recommend this book to children and young adults and especially to elementary and middle school libraries.
|
View all 8 comments |
|
|
|
|
