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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread (1st Edition) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illustrator) Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-7636-2529-9 / 0763625299 ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-2529-0 / 9780763625290 DiCamillo’s 2004 Newbery Medal-winning fairy tale, wittily subtitled ‘the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread’, is a huge change of direction for this successful American children’s author. Instead of another tale of real life, as seen in Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tige |