TALE OF DESPEREAUX Short Story

TALE OF DESPEREAUX Short StoryAuthor: Kate DiCamillo Illustrator: Timothy Basil Ering Age: 9 12 Pages: 272 pg. Size: 13 x 20 cm Reading level: Growing Reader ATOS Book Level: 4. 7 Accelerated Reader Points: 5. 0 Lexile: 670L A charming story of unlikely heroes Description: A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love

extraordinary physiology

and the dignified bear waking up from his winter nap are just a few of the glorious animals featured in this clever collection of poems and woodland scenes

for every age

My Mama is an amusing story about a cheeky baby elephant who describes his mother while we follow another story in the illustrations—familiar and funny for both parents and children

—Carousel

single-minded protagonist

For my whole life

where it goes

Baker shows the differences between the families (traveling to an open-air market by donkey versus a trip to a hardware megastore in a Citroën)

In this exquisitely illustrated story Hughes

The Sunday Times *

have the power to bring back child and adult viewers for infinite 'readings