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"Kate DiCamillo's literary classic about Despereaux Tilling - a mouse in love with music, stories and a princess named Pea - has enchanted readers around the globe. It is published in twenty-three languages, with more than two million copies sold. ""The Tale of Despereaux"" was the winner of the Newbery Medal Award and a Number 1 ""New York Times"" bestseller. Now ""The Tale of Despereaux"" is a major motion picture and the animated feature film from Universal Pictures stars an outstanding cast of voices, including: Matthew Broderick (Despereaux); Robbie Coltrane (Gregory); Dustin Hoffman (Roscuro); Emma Watson (Princess Pea); and, Sigourney Weaver (Narrator).This deluxe hardback picture book includes a paper novelty on every spread and a spectacular pop-up surprise. Key scenes from the film are highlighted, along with information about the characters, sidebars, die-cuts, flaps, foldouts and gatefolds. There is even a removable flip book showing Despereaux jumping through a mouse trap, among other intriguing novelty features."

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Kate DiCamillo is also the author of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Because of Winn-Dixie, a Newbery Honor winner; The Tiger Rising, a National Book Award finalist and bestselling Great Joy. She lives in Minneapolis.

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