I recently finished reading The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo. Kate DiCamillo has written some of my favorite books, Because of Winn-Dixie, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and The Tale of Despereaux. However, as I read The Magician’s Elephant I didn’t know how such an acclaimed author could commit the simple mistake of keeping her characters undeveloped. When the characters feel strong emotions (or should be anyway) it seems that all they do is shrug their shoulders and say, “Well that’s life. Whatcha gonna do about it?” She also continually switches between a dozen characters’ points of view which gives you plenty of characters but all of them are 2-D. Remember, quality not quantity. The whole book seems to build up to one super-climax, but when you reach it you will find that it is a bump in the road, not a mountain to climb.
~ Dr. Seuss
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