Lovvvveee this book! I have loved it since my son was in third grade and I read it for the first time. I have reread it at least seven times now and never bore with it.
Kate DiCamillo wrote many of my favorites of all time. In this one, we meet Despereaux. He is an unmouselike mouse who falls in love with a princess and gets banished to the castle dungeon all while a conniving rat from the dungeon sneaks upstairs to check out the "greener grass" of the real world. The stories intertwine with one about Miggery Sow, a servant girl, and are told from a backwards direction. I enjoy how the author addresses the reader thoughgout the pages.
The original novel is quite different than the movie. I have read the junior novelization version and felt as if it was a completely second story. In the movie version, Roscuro arrives to the Kingdom of Dor on a ship. This is the strangest part to me since the whole point of the Roscuro storyline was how he was drawn to the light. In the past, students have had fun with the many comparisons between the original Newbery winner and the novelization.
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