The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread / Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiCamillo, Kate.

Contributor:

Ering, Timothy B., illustrator.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mice--Juvenile fiction.

Mice.

Princesses--Juvenile fiction.

Princesses.

Rats--Juvenile fiction.

Rats.

Mice--Fiction.

Princesses--Fiction.

Rats--Fiction.

Fairy tales.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

267 pages, 21 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First paperback edition].

Other Title:

Despereaux

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2006]

Summary:

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

Contents:

A mouse is born

Chiaroscuro

Gor! The tale of miggery sow

Recalled to the light

Coda.

Notes:

"First paperback edition 2006."

Originally published in 2003. Reprinted in 2006 with an excerpt of the author's "The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane".

"The book was typeset in Garamond Ludlow."

"The illustrations were done in pencil."

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Newbery Medal, 2004; A Junior Literary Guild Selection.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy has John Newberry Medal sticker on front cover.

ISBN:

0763625299

9780763625290

9780763617226

0763617229

9780756965808

0756965802

OCLC:

66462849