Because of Winn-Dixie Anniversary Edition by Kate DiCamillo (English) Hardcover

Description: Because of Winn-Dixie Anniversary Edition by Kate DiCamillo, Ann Patchett Revisit Kate DiCamillos beloved first novel with a beautiful twentieth-anniversary edition featuring an introduction by Ann Patchett."This book is (I hope) a hymn of praise to dogs, friendship, and the South," Kate DiCamillo said of her best-selling debut novel, which has been awarded a Newbery Honor, translated into nearly thirty languages, and turned into a major motion picture. The story of a preachers daughter named Opal whose life is transformed by a scruffy dog named Winn-Dixie continues to touch the hearts of readers of all ages. Celebrate twenty years of Because of Winn-Dixie with a signature anniversary edition featuring a redesigned cover, an introduction by PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Ann Patchett, and an afterword by Kate DiCamillo. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Kate DiCamillo is the author of many adored and award-winning books for young readers, including The Tale of Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses, which each received a Newbery Medal, as well as The Tiger Rising, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Magicians Elephant, and the Raymie Nightingale sequence of novels. A former National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, she lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Excerpt from Book Chapter One My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog. This is what happened: I walked into the produce section of the Winn-Dixie grocery store to pick out my two tomatoes and I almost bumped right into the store manager. He was standing there all red-faced, screaming and waving his arms around. "Who let a dog in here?" he kept on shouting. "Who let a dirty dog in here?" At first, I didnt see a dog. There were just a lot of vegetables rolling around on the floor, tomatoes and onions and green peppers. And there was what seemed like a whole army of Winn-Dixie employees running around waving their arms just the same way the store manager was waving his. And then the dog came running around the corner. He was a big dog. And ugly. And he looked like he was having a real good time. His tongue was hanging out and he was wagging his tail. He skidded to a stop and smiled right at me. I had never before in my life seen a dog smile, but that is what he did. He pulled back his lips and showed me all his teeth. Then he wagged his tail so hard that he knocked some oranges off a display, and they went rolling everywhere, mixing in with the tomatoes and onions and green peppers. The manager screamed, "Somebody grab that dog!" The dog went running over to the manager, wagging his tail and smiling. He stood up on his hind legs. You could tell that all he wanted to do was get face to face with the manager and thank him for the good time he was having in the produce department, but somehow he ended up knocking the manager over. And the manager must have been having a bad day, because lying there on the floor, right in front of everybody, he started to cry. The dog leaned over him, real concerned, and licked his face. "Please," said the manager. "Somebody call the pound." "Wait a minute!" I hollered. "Thats my dog. Dont call the pound." All the Winn-Dixie employees turned around and looked at me, and I knew I had done something big. And maybe stupid, too. But I couldnt help it. I couldnt let that dog go to the pound. "Here, boy," I said. The dog stopped licking the managers face and put his ears up in the air and looked at me, like he was trying to remember where he knew me from. "Here, boy," I said again. And then I figured that the dog was probably just like everybody else in the world, that he would want to get called by a name, only I didnt know what his name was, so I just said the first thing that came into my head. I said, "Here, Winn-Dixie." And that dog came trotting over to me just like he had been doing it his whole life. The manager sat up and gave me a hard stare, like maybe I was making fun of him. "Its his name," I said. "Honest." The manager said, "Dont you know not to bring a dog into a grocery store?" "Yes sir," I told him. "He got in by mistake. Im sorry. It wont happen again. "Come on, Winn-Dixie," I said to the dog. I started walking and he followed along behind me as I went out of the produce department and down the cereal aisle and past all the cashiers and out the door. Once we were safe outside, I checked him over real careful and he didnt look that good. He was big, but skinny; you could see his ribs. And there were bald patches all over him, places where he didnt have any fur at all. Mostly, he looked like a big piece of old brown carpet that had been left out in the rain. "Youre a mess," I told him. "I bet you dont belong to anybody." He smiled at me. He did that thing again, where he pulled back his lips and showed me his teeth. He smiled so big that it made him sneeze. It was like he was saying, "I know Im a mess. Isnt it funny?" Its hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor. "Come on," I told him. "Lets see what the preacher has to say about you." And the two of us, me and Winn-Dixie, started walking home. Details ISBN1536214345 Pages 192 Audience Age 9-12 Language English ISBN-10 1536214345 ISBN-13 9781536214345 Format Hardcover Publisher Candlewick Press,U.S. Imprint Candlewick Press,U.S. Place of Publication Massachusetts Country of Publication United States Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-12-01 AU Release Date 2020-12-01 NZ Release Date 2020-12-01 US Release Date 2020-12-01 UK Release Date 2020-12-01 Author Ann Patchett DEWEY FIC Audience Children / Juvenile We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:140240881;

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