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barefootsong 's review for:
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
I love, love, love the narrative voice for this story. I love that it's an intimate reading experience, and that the narrator encourages the reader to think about words and their meanings in a way that doesn't feel didactic at all. The story itself is also fantastic. Despereaux is a great hero and I like that we get glimpses into the other characters' lives as well, so that even the "bad guys" are not entirely evil. It's a beautiful story.
I first fell in love with DiCamillo for Because of Winn-Dixie and I keep falling in love the more I read. She's so diverse, but she is one of the few authors who can do that well--there's never any less truth and delight to any of her stories, however wildly different they are.
I first fell in love with DiCamillo for Because of Winn-Dixie and I keep falling in love the more I read. She's so diverse, but she is one of the few authors who can do that well--there's never any less truth and delight to any of her stories, however wildly different they are.