<P> In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association named it one of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on an online poll . In 2012 it was ranked number 59 among all - time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal--the third of three books by DiCamillo in the Top 100 . </P> <P> The book was featured in My Love from the Star, a 2014 Korean drama about an alien living on Earth for 400 years who falls in love with a popular actress . This propelled the novel to the top of the bestseller lists in major Korean bookstores as the alien repeatedly quotes from it throughout the series . </P>

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