Kate DiCamillo: "Perjalanan Ajaib Edward Tulane dimulai dengan seorang...

"Perjalanan Ajaib Edward Tulane dimulai dengan seorang teman memberi saya boneka kelinci - maafkan saya, Edward, karena menggunakan kata itu; dia tidak suka "boneka" - untuk Natal. Saya berkata, "Oh, dia cantik, siapa namanya?" Dan dia berkata, "Edward." Dan beberapa hari setelah saya menerima kelinci, yang berpakaian sangat bagus dalam pakaian jenis Edwardian, saya melihat dia menanggalkan pakaiannya dan menghadap ke bawah di dasar laut. Mengapa? Saya tidak tahu Tapi di situlah ceritanya dimulai di kepalaku."

--- Kate DiCamillo

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that word; he doesn't like "doll" - for Christmas. I said, "Oh, he's lovely, what's his name?" And she said, "Edward." And a few days after I received the rabbit, who was dressed very handsomely in Edwardian kind of clothes, I saw him stripped of his finery and face down on the bottom of the ocean floor. Why? I don't know. But that's where his story began in my head.