In making the leap to the big screen from Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Medal-winning 2003 novel, “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread ...

Synopsis: The Tale of Despereaux tells the story of several unlikely heroes: Despereaux, a brave mouse banished to the dungeon for speaking with a human; Roscuro, a good-hearted rat who loves ...

REVIEW The Tale of Despereaux Who: With the voices of Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Wat son. ... 'Despereaux': saving a princess and making the world safe for soup.

Kate DiCamillo's novel "The Tale of Despereaux" won the 2004 Newberry Medal, an award given for children's literature. Jeffrey Brown speaks with DiCamillo about her award-winning novel.

Lovable rodents and a fussy French chef -- there’s a soupçon of “Ratatouille” in “The Tale of Despereaux,” but this old-fashioned fable cares not a whit about culinary competition or ...

Enter Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), an unnaturally brave little mouse with ginormous ears who sets out to rescue Dor’s Princess Pea (Emma Watson) from the clutches of a nefarious rat king ...

Norwood is joined by three other non-PigPen cast members, a first for the troupe: Taylor Iman Jones (most recently of Broadway’s “Head Over Heels”) as Princess Pea; Betsy Morgan (seen in the ...

The voice casting lightens the load. Matthew Broderick’s Despereaux, Dustin Hoffman’s Roscuro and Emma Watson’s princess offer plenty of feeling and no wisecracking inflections, and even ...

In making the leap to the big screen from Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Medal-winning 2003 novel, “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread ...