The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo [SECOND EDITION] 2004 • Scholastic

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

SECOND EDITION [2003] CANDLEWICK PRESS

First Scholastic printing / 2004.  Near identical to the first edition. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Some light wear to boards.  Dust jacket now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Reads like new w.  *name of original owner written on front endpaper. 

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 with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.