| Book Talk: Despereaux is an unlikely hero. Very small, with huge ears, with no proper mouse instincts: he is not long for this world. Enter the Princess Pea, the lovely child princess who dwells in the very same castle as our small hero, Despereaux. He falls, like his name, desperately in love with her and pledges his life to her service. But how, reader, how can a mouse, especially one like ours, hope to serve the Princess Pea? Especially when in the next breath after meeting her, he is sentenced by his own kind to die in the dungeon, to be tortured and eaten by rats? Our hero is small, but his fate is huge. This, reader, is the tale. The Tale of Despereaux. (http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/dicamillo_tale.htm)
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