BookAges 6–7
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo · 2003
American
A small mouse with very large ears in a castle, a princess named Pea, a rat in the dungeon, a serving girl named Miggery Sow. DiCamillo turns to the reader throughout — "Reader, do you remember…" Read aloud, one chapter a night for two months. The form is the lap kind of story before it is the independent kind.
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