The author’s second book to be turned into a 3DCG feature – following The Tale of Despereaux – the film centers around a young orphan named Peter, who is searching for his long-lost sister. The Magician’s Elephant – adapted, coincidentally, from DiCamillo’s fifth published novel – premieres on the streaming giant Friday, March 17. More specifically, a master in the art of creating symbolic, life-affirming core animal characters in all her stories.ĭiCamillo has published more than 25 novels, including “Because of Winn-Dixie,” “The Tiger Rising,” “The Tale of Despereaux,” “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,” “The Magician's Elephant,” the “Mercy Watson” series, and “Flora & Ulysses.” She is one of only six authors to be awarded two Newbery Medals and four of her books have been developed into films, with a fifth feature adaptation now launching on Netflix.
And don’t worry, there are no spoilers here - I want to preserve your experience of both this marvelous book and the joyful reimagining of it as a film.For the last 23 years, author Kate DiCamillo has been a champion of children’s literature. That interview is what you’'ll find below. Newsletter break, schmooze-letter break: you do not say no.) When Netflix asked if I’d like to preview the movie - and more importantly, to me at least, interview Kate DiCamillo - I said yes. “It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. “Magic is always impossible, “ said the magician. When he discovers a magician who summons a mysterious elephant from the sky (I suppose all “elephants from the sky” are mysterious), it sets off a sequence of events in his sleepy little town that change the lives of everyone involved.
It’s a beautiful tale about orphan Peter Augustus Duchene, whose grit, determination, and belief that anything is possible sets him off on an almost-dreamlike, seemingly-impossible quest to find his long-lost sister. The Magician’s Elephant is one of the latter.
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