The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo (2004)
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Read to Them is proud to recommend our third title by the redoubtable Kate DiCamillo, the Newbery Award winning The Tale of Despereaux, which joins Because of Winn-Dixie and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane on our recommended reading list.
DiCamillo is a prose master. She gilds sterling, shining language and uses it to spin a tale that is moving, haunting, stimulating, enriching, and brisk. DiCamillo uses vocabulary and forms that keep the reader on his or her toes, ever ready for the unexpected.
The Tale of Despereaux Being the Story of A Mouse, A Princess, Some Soup, and A Spool of Thread (eBook): DiCamillo, Kate: The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a. View the The Tale Of Despereaux collection on Epic plus over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids. Free download or read online The Tale of Despereaux pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in 2004, and was written by Kate DiCamillo. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 272 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fantasy, childrens story are Despereaux Tilling, Princess Pea.
The Tale of Despereaux takes place in a castle with all the familiar trappings – king, princess, dungeon, jailer, rats…and mice. Our protagonist is a mouse. And here is where things get interesting. Some of DiCamillo’s characters are iconoclasts. Despereaux for sure. The princess for another.
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The subtitle of The Tale of Despereaux reads ‘being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread.’ The mouse and the princess you know about. It is DiCamillo’s special talent to make something charming, unexpected, wise, and learned out of soup and thread, in turn making The Tale of Despereaux something else, something magical.
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DiCamillo is also an expert at pithy and winsome turns of phrase. She talks to the reader… “Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.” She lards her story with glittering prose diamonds – “Light is the answer;” “Stories are light” – that make powerful sense in the story, and that readers will ponder and treasure long after The Tale of Despereaux is back on the shelf. (Celebrate these pearls. Put ’em on t-shirts!)
It is after you add these qualities – the soup and the thread and the wise epigrams – to the drama of the rats and the dungeon that you have a story that will charm and enrich children of all grades and their parents. That’s what makes family literacy take off. That’s why The Tale of Despereaux is a great read for One School, One Book and One District, One Book.