Flora & Ulysses

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Text copyright © 2013 by Kate DiCamillo

Illustrations copyright © 2013 by K. G. Campbell

Excerpt from “Gott spricht zu jedem . . . / God speaks to each of us . . .” from Rilke’s Book of Hours:

Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy,

copyright © 1996 by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.

Used by permission of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted,

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First electronic edition 2013

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2012947748

ISBN 978-0-7636-6040-6 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-7636-6724-5 (electronic)

The illustrations were created in pencil.

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