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Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
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First Published:
Aug 2003, 272 pages
Paperback:
Apr 2006, 272 pages
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The Short of the StoryComing to Terms
Learn what the following words mean and how to pronounce them:
What's The Point .... of View?
A Matter of Time
What Happens Next?
What do you think happens next in the story? Does Despereaux have other adventures? Does anything change in the dungeon? What is life like for Miggery Sow? Come up with more questions about what happens after The Tale of Despereaux. Write a story to answer your questions.
Once Upon A Time . . .
If you liked reading The Tale of Despereaux, here are some other books that author Kate DiCamillo would recommend:
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aikens (Yearling Books)
Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aikens (Houghton Mifflin)
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban (Arthur A. Levine)
Ambitious readers may also want to explore David Copperfield or other novels by Charles Dickens. Happy reading!
The majority of this discussion guide was contributed by Amanda Witman, a former library assistant at Memorial Hall Library in Andover, Massachusetts, and currently a homeschooling mom to three children. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press.
Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of Candlewick Press. Any page references refer to a USA edition of the book, usually the trade paperback version, and may vary in other editions.
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