Join Despereaux on adventure to save Princess Pea from mangy rats. This book is divided into four section and told from multiple different characters point of view. The leveling system is The Lexile, reading level 670L. Students can practice their writing skills by writing a letter of encouragement ...
The Tale of Despereaux is a level U in the Fountas and Pinnell reading level scale.The Tale of Despereaux is about a mouse named Despereaux Tilling. He sets out on an adventure to save a HUMAN princess named Pea from the rats. The book is split into four separate "books", and each book takes place i...
Lexile Level: 670L The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo is a wonderful chapter book about a mouse named Desperaux who lives in a castle. Desperaux has several traits that make him different from the other mice in the castle. He loves to read and has a curious nature that leads to conflicts wit...
I'm coming to realize I don't like Kate DiCamillo, and I don't think either of her winning books are Newbery worthy. The Tale of Despereaux is more derivative than innovative and its reliance on stereotypes/cliches is annoying (rats/dark are bad and mice/light are good was the most prevalent). The...
This is the first book starring an animal as the main character that I've read in a long time. I enjoyed it but wasn't amazed by it. Told in four parts we hear of Despereaux Tilling's somewhat sad life as a mouse. He doesn't fit in, his ears are too big, his family doesn't love him, all he is is a...
Every fairytale needs a villain. But how often do you feel such deep feelings of empathy for the villain that you understand why he does everything he does? This story is called The Tale of Despereaux but it is also the tale of Roscuro, our aforementioned villain, Miggery Sow, the slow-witted servin...
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of a brave mouse named Despereaux. He reads tales of chivalry and bravery and wants to be like one of those knights. He wants more out of life. Roscuro is a rat. After the Queen's death, all rats/mice were banned from the kingdom, as was all the soup. Roscuro was ...
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.I picked up The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo at the library, in the Italian translation by Angela Ragusa. I had seen it...
So far, I'm not loving the Newbery winners. This one frustrated and disappointed me, and was not loved by my 7-year-old audience either. The book is divided into four sections, focusing first on the titular mouse, then on a very evil rat (not Disney-style fun evil, but sadistic, sociopathic, soul-...
So far, I'm not loving the Newbery winners. This one frustrated and disappointed me, and was not loved by my 7-year-old audience either. The book is divided into four sections, focusing first on the titular mouse, then on a very evil rat (not Disney-style fun evil, but sadistic, sociopathic, soul-...
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