i was pleasantly surprised by this wonderful story of a mouse who saves a princess. in fact, i would place it next to c.s. lewis' the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe as an everlasting classic children's tale.
the story revolves around four characters, desperaux tilling, the extraordinarily small mouse with enormous ears; roscuro, the rat; miggery sow, the serving girl who wants to be a princess; and the princess pea. after desperaux falls in love with the princess, he is never the same again. in fact, his mouse community, including his father and brother, cast him into the dungeon to be eaten by rats! as fate would have it, desperaux survives and in surviving discovers a villainous plot of revenge against the princess pea. he takes it upon himself to become a knight with a shining needle and rescue the princess.
it is a tale of bravery, love, hope, mercy, forgiveness, and most of all, grace. it's a wonderful story that i will read again and again for my own enjoyment and will read repeatedly to my children. i promise you will love this story!
the story revolves around four characters, desperaux tilling, the extraordinarily small mouse with enormous ears; roscuro, the rat; miggery sow, the serving girl who wants to be a princess; and the princess pea. after desperaux falls in love with the princess, he is never the same again. in fact, his mouse community, including his father and brother, cast him into the dungeon to be eaten by rats! as fate would have it, desperaux survives and in surviving discovers a villainous plot of revenge against the princess pea. he takes it upon himself to become a knight with a shining needle and rescue the princess.
it is a tale of bravery, love, hope, mercy, forgiveness, and most of all, grace. it's a wonderful story that i will read again and again for my own enjoyment and will read repeatedly to my children. i promise you will love this story!
This was SUCH an excellent book (but a horrible movie!). On our way home from camping, we listened to a book on cd by the same author, called, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane. It was really good and kind of reminded me of The Velveteen Rabbit.
ReplyDeletei actually liked the movie.
ReplyDeleteit helped knowing that it was nothing at all like the book, so i just pretended that the movie had nothing to do with the book and i actually enjoyed it.
besides, desperaux was super cute.