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【本の説明】

272ページ

130*191mm

言語： English

国：アメリカ

227g

ISBN : 9780763680893

対象年齢：8 ~ 11歳 | AR?指数 : 4.7 | Lexile?指数 : 670L

【本の内容】

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.

Reviews

The author of

Because of Winn-Dixie

and

The Tiger Rising

here shifts gears demonstrating her versatility while once again proving her genius for mining the universal themes of childhood. . . . I must tell you you are in for a treat.

?Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A charming story of unlikely heroes. . . This expanded fairy tale is entertaining heartening and above all great fun.

?School Library Journal (starred review)

Forgiveness light love and soup. These essential ingredients combine into a tale that is as soul stirring as it is delicious.

?Booklist (starred review)

The melodramatic voice of the narrator glides through DiCamillo's entirely pleasing tale. . . And so unwinds a tale with twists and turns full of forbidden soup and ladles rats lusting for mouse blood a servant who wishes to be a princess a knight in shining?or at least furry?armor and all the ingredients of an old-fashioned drama.

?Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

DiCamillo "sets the stage for a battle between the forces of Darkness and Light in

The Tale of Despereaux

and the book is a terrific bravura performance."

?The New York Times Book Review

There is a classic charm to this picaresque tale of an idealistic mouse suffering unrequited love for a princess; that and a pace that lends itself to reading aloud will make this novel a favorite among those ready for some gentle questing.

?The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

DiCamillo tells an engaging tale. . . Many readers will be enchanted by this story of mice and princesses brave deeds hearts 'shaded with dark and dappled with light' and forgiveness.

?The Horn Book

Soul stirring and charming.

?Booklist

Newbery-Honor winning DiCamillo creates the perfect read-aloud with delightful fanciful characters.

?Child's Best of the Year

This old-fashioned tale is overflowing with good and evil light and dark scary adventures. and a happy ending. Ideally read aloud.

?Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Books of the Year

Chill winds call for hot cocoa and a good book.

The Tale of Despereaux

serves up 52 chapters bursting with adventure.

?Washington Parent

I give this book the highest rating: five out of five stars.

?Newsday

Unexpectedly complex in the relationships between its characters DiCamillo's fable engagingly illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering delivers a carefully orchestrated but not overstated testament to the power of love and forgiveness.

?San Francisco Chronicle

"Reader it is his destiny ? just as it is for

The Tale of Despereaux

to become another timeless classic in the once-upon -a-time genre.

?Orlando Sentinel

This charming adventure by the award-winning author of

Because of Winn-Dixie

is a story of love courage and following your heart.

>?Detroit Free Press

Read the book aloud. Few recent texts have been designed for that with multiple plots ticking on divided into 52 small chapters a tiny but deft apologia of the imagination. .

?Chicago Tribune

This charming fairy tale brims with delightful characters.

?Cleveland Plain Dealer

Here once again loss brings characters together misfits find a place in the world and darkness and light. swirl together in a not easily divisible mix.

?Star Tribune

The Tale of Despereaux

"has DiCamillo's modern sensibilities her wry humor and crystalline prose."

?Miami Herald

The The story is just plain fun to read but it also explores deeper and darker aspects of parent-child relations including betrayal the need for forgiveness and the power of love.

?Houston Chronicle

Super Summer Reads:

The Tale of Despereaux

by Kate DiCamillo. A smaller-than-usual mouse falls in love with music stories and a Princess named Pea.

?Woman's Day

A heartwarming and rewarding read

The Tale of Despereaux

cheers uniqueness boos conformity urges readers to overlook seeming differences and inspires hope.

?Teacher Magazine

With its old-fashioned fairy tale qualities and whimsical pencil drawings by Timothy Basil Ering the book is definitely a departure for DiCamillo but one readers are sure to love.

?Book Page

. . . DiCamillo's new fantasy novel is charming by turns sad sweet and mildly scary.

?Voice of Youth Advocates

Sly style and brilliantly-crafted characters will reward the reader. . .

?The Five Owls

Excerpt

Chapter One: The Last One

This story begins within the walls of a castle with the birth of a mouse. A small mouse. The last mouse born to his parents and the only one of his litter to be born alive.

“Where are my babies?” said the exhausted mother when the ordeal was through. “Show to me my babies.”

The father mouse held the one small mouse up high.

“There is only this one” he said. “The others are dead.”

“

Mon Dieu

just the one mouse baby?”

“Just the one. “Will you name him?”

“All of that work for nothing” said the mother. She sighed. “It is so sad. It is such a disappointment.”

She was a French mouse who had arrived at the castle long ago in the luggage of a visiting French diplomat. “Disappointment” was one of her favorite words. She used it often.

“Will you name him?” repeated the father.

“Will I name him? Will I name him? Of course I will name him but he will only die like the others. Oh so sad. Oh such the tragedy.”

The mouse mother held a handkerchief to her nose and then waved it in front of her face. She sniffed. “I will name him. Yes. I will name this mouse Despereaux for all the sadness for the many despairs in this place. Now where is my mirror?”

Her husband handed her a small shard of mirror. The mouse mother whose name was Antoinette looked at her reflection and gasped aloud. “Toul?se” she said to one of her sons “get for me my makeup bag.” My eyes are a fear.”

While Antoinette touched up her eye makeup the mouse father put Despereaux down on a bed made of blanket scraps. The April sun weak but determined shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.

The other older mice children gathered around to stare at Despereaux .

“His ears are too big” said his sister Merlot. “Those are the biggest ears I’ve ever seen.”

“Look” said a brother named Furlough “his eyes are open.” Pa his eyes are open. They shouldn’t be open.”

It is true. Despereaux’s eyes should not have been open. But they were. He was staring at the sun reflecting off his mother’s mirror. The light was shining onto the ceiling in an oval of brilliance and he was smiling up at the sight.

“There’s something wrong with him” said the father. “Leave him alone.”

Despereaux’s brothers and sisters stepped back away from the new mouse.

“This is the last” proclaimed Antoinette from her bed. “I will have no more mice babies. They are such a disappointment. They are hard on my beauty. They ruin form my looks. This is the last one. “No more.”

“The last one” said the father. “And he’ll be dead soon.” He can’t live. Not with his eyes open like that.”

But reader he did live.

This is his story.

Chapter Two: Such A Disappointment

Despereaux Tilling lived.

But his existence was cause for much speculation in the mouse community.

“He's the smallest mouse I've ever seen” said his aunt Florence. “It’s ridiculous. No mouse has ever ever been this small. Not even a Tilling.” She looked at Despereaux through narrowed eyes as if she expected him to disappear entirely. “No mouse” she said again. “Ever.”

Despereaux his tail wrapped around his feet stared back at her.

“Those are some big ears he’s got too” observed his uncle Alfred. “They look more like donkey ears if you ask me.”

“They are obscenely large ears” said Aunt Florence.

Despereaux wiggled his ears.

His aunt Florence gasped.

“They say he was born with his eyes open” whispered Uncle Alfred.

Despereaux stared hard at his uncle.

“Impossible” said Aunt Florence. “No mouse no matter how small or obscenely large-eared is ever born with his eyes open. It simply isn’t done.”

“His pa Lester says he’s not well” said Uncle Alfred.

Despereaux sneezed.

He said nothing in defense of himself. How could he? Everything his aunt and uncle said was true. He

was

ridiculously small. His ears

were

obscenely large. He

had

been born with his eyes open. And he was sickly. He coughed and sneezed so often that he carried a handkerchief in one paw at all times. He ran temperatures. He fainted at loud noises. Most alarming of all he showed no interest in the things a mouse should show interest in.

He did not think constantly of food. He was not intent on tracking down every crumb. While

【お取り寄せ・キャンセル不可の商品】：2週間~4週間でお届け（お急ぎの方はご遠慮ください。） ／ 【本の説明】272ページ 130*191mm 言語：English 国：アメリカ 227g ISBN:9780763680893 対象年齢：8~11歳|AR?指数:4.7|Lexile?指数:670L ／ 【本の内容】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?