And Miggery Sow, the servant girl who unwittingly aids Roscuro in his diabolical plan, has been abandoned and ridiculed for most of her life. The villain who tries to imprison the princess-a rat named Roscuro-becomes his angry and twisted self because the whole world outside the dungeon rejects him. They shut him out and eventually send him to certain doom when he breaks the most important mouse rule: Never reveal yourself to humans.Äespereaux isn't the only character in the book who's unappreciated. When he's born, his family thinks he's just, well…different. But he's pretty bad at being a typical mouse. He learns to read, falls in love with a princess, and eventually goes on a quest to save her when she's kidnapped by an evil rat. The lovable title character, Despereaux, defies expectations. (And you've got quite the imagination.) Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal-winning story was published in 2003 and charmed reader and literary critics alike with its fairy tale story of a definitely unlikely hero. If you imagined a tiny little mouse with giant ears who faints a lot, then The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread is certainly the book of your dreams. Now envision the kind of hero who will show up to save the day, possibly on a white horse. Imagine a princess in peril, held at knifepoint in the deepest, darkest dungeon.
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