The Tale of Despereaux is a beautiful story which teaches us a lot through its characters and plot. It follows a courageous mouse's and a princess's story and how their fates are connected. The ...

Before the princess went to bed, the queen hid a pea under twenty mattresses and twenty down blankets. “After all, only a real princess would be sensitive enough to feel the pea and, therefore, be ...

A fear-mongering autocrat rigs elections to maintain power as a rising resistance fights to bring back kindness. I’m talking, of course, about “Princess and the Pea,” the main event of the ...

While Despereaux begins his noble quest to rescue Pea--a princess who can't see beyond her distorted view of the world--his pal Roscuro receives a painful rejection from her highness that sets him ...

While Despereaux begins his noble quest to rescue Pea--a princess who can't see beyond her distorted view of the world--his pal Roscuro receives a painful rejection from her highness that sets him ...

This is the last weekend to see the charming story “The Princess and the Pea” at Creative Cauldron, its newest Learning Theater Production. It’s delightful, it’s fun, and this variation by Ellen Selby ...

Kate DiCamillo looks back on "The Tale of Despereaux," 20 years after its publication, her inspirations and more.

THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (Candlewick, 288 pp., $24.99, ages 7 to 10), illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, tells the story of ...

The Despereaux of the title is a tiny mouse (even by mousey standards) with gigantic ears and a penchant for bravery. Bravery, curiosity and individuality—being very unmouselike qualities—create a ...