The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, some Soup and a Spool of Thread
By KATE DICAMILLO.
Description
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout:\nDiCamillo's 2004 Newbery Medal-winning fairy tale, wittily subtitled 'the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread', is a huge change of direction for this successful American children's author. Instead of another tale of real life, as seen in Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tiger Rising, DiCamillo brings her same style of delicate, literary simplicity to bear on a young fantasy that will be equally enduring and that is already equally lauded. \n\nAn unnamed narrator tells the story of a mouse called D...
ISBN(s)
0744598699, 9780744598698
