Winn-Dixie (book)

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Winn-Dixie is the title of a children's book by the American Kate DiCamillo . The book, for which the author received the Newbery Medal and the German translation by Sabine Ludwig was on the shortlist for the German Youth Literature Prize , was successfully filmed in 2004 by Wayne Wang under the title Winn-Dixie - Mein Zotteliger Freund .

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Ten-year-old India Opal Bulonie, who acts as the first-person narrator, moves to a small town in the southern United States with her father, whom she calls the “preacher”. In this way, the father tries to suppress the memory of Opal's mother, who left her family when Opal was three. Opal, on the other hand, no longer knows anything about her mother and cannot talk to her father about her feelings. In her new home, the girl feels even more lonely, because she feels teased by the children there and thus feels even more lost.

This only changes when Opal meets a dog while shopping in a shop belonging to the Winn Dixie chain, whom she rescues from the owner of the shop and pretends to be hers. The dog, which she also baptizes Winn-Dixie and who becomes her first friend, helps Opal deal with her situation. She helps out in an animal shop where the convicted Otis only plays music for the animals, and comes into contact with the librarian Miss Franny, who tells her stories from her life, and Gloria, who is denounced by the children as a "witch", who she is reads out. This shows Opal that the neighborhood children are also unhappy and lonely and encourages her little friend to approach them. Ultimately, Opal even finds the courage to speak to her father about her mother, and can thus on the one hand recognize what she has in common with this woman, but also that she must not let her longing for her determine her life.

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