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samwescott 's review for:
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
I am thoroughly enchanted by this little book. The narrator style was charmingly Dickensian with its little homilies on light and dark, on forgiveness and the broken-hearted. I was expecting a cute story about a mouse and instead found a treatise on courage and the value of soup. I imagine this would be great to read to children nightly, since the chapters are short and episodic, but I enjoyed it thoroughly as an adult reader. I'll definitely be returning to this little treasure in the future.