The Magician's Elephant

I love my new The Magician’s Elephant widget! Sometimes I wonder who reads my blog. Sometimes I wonder if magic is true. Well, last night magic happened. Right here. To me. Friday night I blogged about how I wished I had The Magician’s Elephant widget. A real live magician, moonlighting at Candlewick Press, waved a…

This just in from Publishers Weekly: Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo’s eagerly awaited new novel, The Magician’s Elephant (Candlewick, Sept.), illustrated by Yoko Tanaka, continues to move forward. This week Candlewick revealed the cover art and announced a hefty first printing of 500,000 copies for the 208-page fable, in which a boy who learns from a…