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Title: Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package
Subtitle: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume 4
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Narrator: Lorna Raver
Format: Unabridged
Length: 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-10-17
Publisher: Listening Library
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
Publisher's Summary:
What will it take for a cynical older sister to realize she's a born accordion player - with music in her heart?
Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person with no time for gee-gaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it. But her plans to sell the accordion, destroy the accordion, and give the accordion away all end in frustration. How can Eugenia stop being tormented by this troublesome package? Might she discover that a bit of unforeseen frivolity could be surprisingly...joyous?
Members Reviews:
Another brilliant book by DiCamillo!
Kate DiCamillo gets better and better! My family and I adore all of the Tales from Deckawoo Drive. So full of heart and humor. Our favorite children's books!
Five Stars
great author, and great books
Five Stars
I love everything Kate DiCamillo. THis series always makes my students laugh
A lighthearted romp that's written with a precision that makes it worthy of study
Banneker Bones and the Giant Robot Bees (The And Then Story Book 1)
First Paragraph: Eugenia Lincoln was a practical person, a sensible person. She did not have time for poetry, geegaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity.
I try to read widely to expose myself to a lot of authors and a lot of styles, which means I don't always get to go as deep into an author's catalog as I might like. Like any lover of middle grade, I love Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux, and naturally I carved out time for Flora and Ulysses (who doesn't want to read about a super-heroic squirrel?). But then I got busy with another middle grade review for this blog and yadda, yadda, don't you judge me, Esteemed Reader, I doubt Kate DiCamillo has read three of my books...
Anyway, mores the pity, because there's a whole shared DiCamillo universe I've been missing out on. But I'll be catching up with a quickness. Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package is the fourth in the Tales from Deckawoo Drive series that is connected to the Mercy Watson series, which is also illustrated by Chris Van Dusen, who deserves his own separate review as his illustrations add so much to this story. Each book in the series tells the tale of a character from a group of related characters that pop into each other's books like the superheroes in Lisa Yee's Batgirl at Superhero High. This is a whole lot of fun and means almost every character introduced on Deckawoo Drive is fully realized enough to be the star of their own future story.
This is the story of Eugenia Lincoln (obviously) who is a very fun character indeed:
She had never been so frustrated in her life.
Actually, this was not true.
Eugenia spent a large portion of her life being frustrated. It was hard not to be frustrated. The world was just so... frustrating.
And also:
Eugenia Lincoln was very fond of lists.
They helped her think. Lists calmed her.
They made the world seem orderly and reasonable and manageable, even though the world was none of these things.
Eugenia Lincoln is an older woman, or so I assume from Chris Van Dusen's illustrations, and extremely curmudgeonly.
