Jesse’s Reviews > The Tale of Despereaux Deluxe Anniversary Edition: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread > Status Update

That’s the end of the Tale of Desperaux… though not the end of the entire book. This edition comes with a short story that I’ve yet to read. The book was quite sweet, though, and I while I wasn’t exactly sure how it was going to end I was pretty sure that it was going to finish with some sort of redemption for Roscuro. What DiCamillo hints at is… the death of the queen is ultimately what saved the princess.

I appreciate the moment where Lester asks forgiveness of his son and his son forgives him, and DeCamillo elaborating on what a difficult thing that is for the both of them.

I think I was told that Desperaux loses his tail but it still came as a bit of a shock when it happened! I feel bad for Mig but I assume that she will get something more positive than being a princess when she inevitably reconnects with her father. This seems a bit too tidy for the story, though, given how DiCamillo has written it so far…

I feel bad for Mig and a child who has been beaten nearly deaf should probably not be played for laughs but bless DiCamillo it’s funny.

tbh the story the prisoner tells Chiaroscuro is pretty freakin’ rough