The Tale of Despereaux Deluxe Anniversary Edition (2004)
2004 Newbery Award Medal Winner
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12311024
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$23.74
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About the Tale of Despereaux Deluxe Anniversary Editon
Celebrate twenty years of Despereaux with a splendid anniversary edition including a bonus original short story from Kate DiCamillo and a new piece of art by Timothy Basil Ering.
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 one another's lives. And what happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.
For this beautifully designed twentieth-anniversary edition, the author has written a brand-new short story, The Tapestry at Norendy, inspired by the world of Despereaux and presented with a new black-and-white illustration by Timothy Basil Ering.
Celebrate twenty years of Despereaux with a splendid anniversary edition including a bonus original short story from Kate DiCamillo and a new piece of art by Timothy Basil Ering.
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 one another's lives. And what happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.
For this beautifully designed twentieth-anniversary edition, the author has written a brand-new short story, The Tapestry at Norendy, inspired by the world of Despereaux and presented with a new black-and-white illustration by Timothy Basil Ering.
Specifications
ISBN: 9781536228670
Grade Level: 2-5
Age Range: 7-10
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 288
Publish Year: 2023
Publisher/Imprint: Candlewick Press
Awards: Newbery Medal Winner, Apples Book Award - Children’s List, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader’s Choice Award in the Junior Division, Massachusetts Children’s Book Award, Midwest Booksellers’Choice Award - Honorable mention, Garden State Children’s Book Award (New Jersey), Sequoyah Award (Oklahoma), Maine Student Book Award Winner, Golden Archer Award (Wisconsin), Great Lakes’Great Books Award, Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, Chapman Awards for Best Classroom Read-Alouds, Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern CA Distinguished Books, Chicago Public Library Best Books for Children and Teens, Pennsylvania School Librarians Assoc - YA Top 10 Fiction Titles, Children’s Literature Choices, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List, NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Notable Children’s Book, USA Today, in.Top 150 Best-selling Books in. List, Anita Shreve, author of THE PILOT’S WIFE, New England Book Show Winner, ALA Notable Children’s Books, Parents’Choice Awards Silver Honor, Child’s Best of the Year, Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Books of the Year, Booklist Editors’Choice, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, Book Sense 76 - Top 10
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: Timothy Basil Ering
Dimensions: 8-1/2 in.H x 6-1/2 in.W
Grade Level: 2-5
Age Range: 7-10
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 288
Publish Year: 2023
Publisher/Imprint: Candlewick Press
Awards: Newbery Medal Winner, Apples Book Award - Children’s List, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader’s Choice Award in the Junior Division, Massachusetts Children’s Book Award, Midwest Booksellers’Choice Award - Honorable mention, Garden State Children’s Book Award (New Jersey), Sequoyah Award (Oklahoma), Maine Student Book Award Winner, Golden Archer Award (Wisconsin), Great Lakes’Great Books Award, Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, Chapman Awards for Best Classroom Read-Alouds, Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern CA Distinguished Books, Chicago Public Library Best Books for Children and Teens, Pennsylvania School Librarians Assoc - YA Top 10 Fiction Titles, Children’s Literature Choices, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List, NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Notable Children’s Book, USA Today, in.Top 150 Best-selling Books in. List, Anita Shreve, author of THE PILOT’S WIFE, New England Book Show Winner, ALA Notable Children’s Books, Parents’Choice Awards Silver Honor, Child’s Best of the Year, Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Books of the Year, Booklist Editors’Choice, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, Book Sense 76 - Top 10
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: Timothy Basil Ering
Dimensions: 8-1/2 in.H x 6-1/2 in.W