The tale of despereaux

Around the holidays — the malls, the crowds — being an adult kind of sucks. There are so many responsibilities and extra stresses that come this time of year that all make us want to run and hide and escape and fly away from everything we have to…

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This star-studded adaptation of Kate DiCamillo’s Newberry Medal-winning book tells the tale of an unusually gifted mouse named Despereaux (voiced by Matthew Broderick) who falls in love with a human princess.

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Although the title Kate di Camillo’s Newbery-winning Tale of Despereaux only mentions the tiny mouse Despereaux, he is one of three charact...

"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark." [The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo] children's literature.