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Tarfumes.com - The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread (Tale of Despereaux)
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Candlewick
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780763625290
ISBN: 0763625299
Label: Candlewick
Manufacturer: Candlewick
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2006-04-11
Publisher: Candlewick
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: 2006-04-11
Studio: Candlewick
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"Forgiveness, light, love, and soup. These essential ingredients combine into a tale that is as soul-stirring as it is delicious." — BOOKLIST (starred review)
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.
From the master storyteller who brought us BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE comes another classic, a fairy tale full of quirky, unforgettable characters, with twenty-four stunning black-and-white illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering. This paperback edition pays tribute to the book's classicdesign, featuring a rough front and elegant gold stamping.
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Summary: Deplorable
Comment: This book heaps wickedness, cruelty, evil, and despair on its main character, and through him, on your child.
The pitiless scorn of his family, the contempt of the mouse council and all the mice, and the death sentence with which the tiny young mouse is condemned, all for being good, all for being different... all within the first few chapters... to offer this to a child as children's literature is utterly corrupt.
To give children's literature characters who engage in psychological torture for fun, like the rats... or a character whose father sells her for trinkets to a man who beats her until she loses her hearing, like Miggery, or a king who GIVES UP on the search for his captive daughter because it is simply too difficult... what is this book burdening my children with? I stopped reading it to them after Despereaux fell in love with the princess and was summoned to the council.
I read the rest of the book to myself, with a growing sense of disgust that somehow the Newbery award was granted to this putrid book. To recommend this book to other parents would be an act of depravity. To write it for children must have taken an unimaginable level of malice toward innocence and beauty.
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Summary: Of Mice and Princesses
Comment: The more I read this book, the more I fall in love with it and its sweet, direct-to-you narrative and the simple, adorable story of a mouse who has fallen in love with a princess. Add in a variety of wonderful characters who all find themselves connected, and you have a veritable children's masterpiece.
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Summary: Absolutely charming
Comment: This is a lovely book. From the rough cut page edges to the wonderful drawings to the author speaking directly to the reader and finally to the story itself! I loved it so much that it has become one of my very favorites. What's better (maybe, one never knows) is that it is coming out in film soon. Buy it for anyone who can dream, wants to dream or is a child literally or figuratively.
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Summary: Soup for everyone!
Comment: Kate DeCamillo write such wonderful characters! Despereaux, Chiaroscuro, miggery Sow-- all fabulous, even if they happen to be villains. the fact that DiCamillo gives each character's sad backstory makes all of them just that much more believable. What a great fairy tale! Soup for everyone!
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Summary: Good Reading!
Comment: This is a very good book. I can't wait for the movie to come out this Christmas 2008. This book would be perfect to read aloud to a classroom of young children. I will be ordering other books by the same author!
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