The Tale of Despereaux Chapters 1-3 1. Which word best describes the setting? Mythical garden c. Futuristic civilization d. Realistic everyday location 2. Which word best describes Despereaux? Self-centered b. Unimaginative d. Read the end of Chapter 1. But, reader, he did live. This is his story. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread - Kindle edition by DiCamillo, Kate, Basil Ering, Timothy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread. This is the story of Desperaux Tilling, a mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl with a simple, impossible wish. These characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, u.
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo (2004)
The Tale Despereaux
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 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.
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.
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Release : 2009-09-08
ISBN : 0763649430
Language : En, Es, Fr & De
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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. With black-and-white illustrations and a refreshed cover by Timothy Basil Ering.