Kate DiCamillo
Paperback | Pages: 267 pages Rating: 4.04 | 152253 Users | 9685 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Tale of Despereaux |
| Author | : | Kate DiCamillo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 267 pages |
| Published | : | September 9th 2008 by Candlewick Press (first published August 25th 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Childrens. Fiction. Middle Grade. Young Adult. Animals. Adventure |
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A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale.Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.
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| Original Title: | The Tale of Despereaux |
| ISBN: | 0763625299 (ISBN13: 9780763625290) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Despereaux Tilling, Princess Pea, Chiaroscuro, Miggery Sow |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (2004), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2004), Kentucky Bluegrass Award for 3-5 (2005), Garden State Book Award (2006), Land of Enchantment Book Award for Young Adult (2006) Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2007), Blue Hen Book Award for Chapter Book (2005), Maine Student Book Award (2005), Mitten Award Nominee for Honor Book (2003), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2005), Golden Archer Award for Intermediate (2005), Indian Paintbrush Book Award (2005), Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Junior (2006), Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (2006), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Kinderbuch (2005), New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Young Adult (2006), Oklahoma Sequoyah Award for Children's (2006), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2006) |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 152253 Users | 9685 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books The Tale of Despereaux
I've now read this for the third time, every time as an adult. This is a book about the power of love and kindness. It is about how we are more alike than we are different. Important ideas to reinforce, and becoming more important by the day. Highly recommended to kids of all ages and the audio performance is beautifully and sensitively performed. <><><>I loved this book. There are so many great lessons for kids about doing the right thing, being brave, forgiving and havingA perfect combination of sweet and dark. Or light and dark, would be a more fitting description, I suppose. And by that I don't just mean that there were good deeds and bad deeds, right and wrong and everyone learned a lesson. Everyone didn't learn a lesson and some people/rats/mice were bad, cowardly, or just plain stupid. This is nothing like Roald Dahl, but they share a quality that I very much appreciate, particularly in children's lit: they let you dislike the unlikeable. Everyone is not
I saw the upcoming movie previews and thought I should read the book. This edition is a slim volume with ragged edged paper and lovely charcoal illlustrations. It certainly is an original work. Young Despereaux is the youngest mouse, born of a french mouse mother and father. He is the runt, small and undersized with big ears. He was born with his "eyes wide open". These ears allow him to hear things other mice don't hear and his eyes observes things other mice don't see. Thus the adventure
Some children's books are wonderfully odd. Others are just odd. The story of Desperaux (a mouse who doesn't just want to be a mouse) is told through the eyes of several different characters. As the stories weave in an out of each other, they draw closer together until the predictably improbably ending. Unfortunately, the characters in the world of Desperaux are all two dimensional; we are repeatedly told how bad the bad guys/rats are, and how good the good guys/mice are, and how clumsy a clumsy
I was thinking the other day: what would you do if you had a negative (and I mean really negative) opinion on a book but by chance happened to come across its author? What would you tell them if they asked you what you thought about their book?Without the luxury of the internet or reviews or all the other ways we have of expressing a negative opinion on things without having to come into direct contact with their creator, we tend to be more insensitive with our criticism. The medium is the
From the moment Despereaux the mouse was born, everyone knew he was different. Born extremely small with strange ears and the only survivor of the litter, his parents weren't sure if he could stay alive. As time goes on, Despereaux becomes quite a curious little critter and begins to question the world around him. He discovers a love for music and falls in love with a lovely princess named Pea. The issue is that Despereaux has gone against the rules put forth by the mouse council by showing
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