小さいねずみ(Mouse)のDesperauxが、愛と使命に導かれ、美しい(人間の)姫を救出する物語。うーん、可愛らしいおとぎ話である。、、、にはとどまりません。そこには城の大広間と地下牢、MouseとRatなど、光の世界と影の世界が描かれています。そして皆、光に恋焦がれるのです。
光を知らずに生きて来たのに、ある日その美しさを知ってしまったRat、、、。主人公ではないですが彼の切なさは大人にも響くのではないでしょうか。
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, And a Spool of Thread [Rough Cut] ペーパーバック – 2006/4/11
英語版
Kate DiCamillo
(著),
Timothy Basil Ering
(イラスト)
"Forgiveness, light, love, and soup. These essential ingredients combine into a tale that is as soul-stirring as it is delicious." — BOOKLIST (starred review)
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.
From the master storyteller who brought us BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE comes another classic, a fairy tale full of quirky, unforgettable characters, with twenty-four stunning black-and-white illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering. This paperback edition pays tribute to the book's classicdesign, featuring a rough front and elegant gold stamping.
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.
From the master storyteller who brought us BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE comes another classic, a fairy tale full of quirky, unforgettable characters, with twenty-four stunning black-and-white illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering. This paperback edition pays tribute to the book's classicdesign, featuring a rough front and elegant gold stamping.
- 対象読者年齢7 ~ 10 歳
- 本の長さ272ページ
- 言語英語
- 対象2 - 5
- Lexile指数0670
- 寸法13.03 x 1.91 x 19.53 cm
- 出版社Candlewick
- 発売日2006/4/11
- ISBN-109780763625290
- ISBN-13978-0763625290
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CHAPTER ONE: THE LAST ONE
This story begins within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse. A small mouse. The last mouse born to his parents and the only one of his litter to be born alive.
"Where are my babies?" said the exhausted mother when the ordeal was through. "Show to me my babies."
The father mouse held the one small mouse up high.
"There is only this one," he said. "The others are dead."
"Mon Dieu, just the one mouse baby?"
"Just the one. Will you name him?"
"All of that work for nothing," said the mother. She sighed. "It is so sad. It is such the disappointment." She was a French mouse who had arrived at the castle long ago in the luggage of a visiting French diplomat. "Disappointment" was one of her favorite words. She used it often.
"Will you name him?" repeated the father.
"Will I name him? Will I name him? Of course, I will name him, but he will only die like the others. Oh, so sad. Oh, such the tragedy."
The mouse mother held a handkerchief to her nose and then waved it in front of her face. She sniffed. "I will name him. Yes. I will name this mouse Despereaux, for all the sadness, for the many despairs in this place. Now, where is my mirror?"
Her husband handed her a small shard of mirror. The mouse mother, whose name was Antoinette, looked at her reflection and gasped aloud. "Toulèse," she said to one of her sons, "get for me my makeup bag. My eyes are a fright."
While Antoinette touched up her eye makeup, the mouse father put Despereaux down on a bed made of blanket scraps. The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.
The other, older mice children gathered around to stare at Despereaux.
"His ears are too big," said his sister Merlot. "Those are the biggest ears I've ever seen."
"Look," said a brother named Furlough, "his eyes are open. Pa, his eyes are open. They shouldn't be open."
It is true. Despereaux's eyes should not have been open. But they were. He was staring at the sun reflecting off his mother's mirror. The light was shining onto the ceiling in an oval of brilliance, and he was smiling up at the sight.
"There's something wrong with him," said the father. "Leave him alone."
Despereaux's brothers and sisters stepped back, away from the new mouse.
"This is the last," proclaimed Antoinette from her bed. "I will have no more mice babies. They are such the disappointment. They are hard on my beauty. They ruin, for me, my looks. This is the last one. No more."
"The last one," said the father. "And he'll be dead soon. He can't live. Not with his eyes open like that."
But, reader, he did live.
This is his story.
______
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. Text copyright (c) 2006 by Kate DiCamillo. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
This story begins within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse. A small mouse. The last mouse born to his parents and the only one of his litter to be born alive.
"Where are my babies?" said the exhausted mother when the ordeal was through. "Show to me my babies."
The father mouse held the one small mouse up high.
"There is only this one," he said. "The others are dead."
"Mon Dieu, just the one mouse baby?"
"Just the one. Will you name him?"
"All of that work for nothing," said the mother. She sighed. "It is so sad. It is such the disappointment." She was a French mouse who had arrived at the castle long ago in the luggage of a visiting French diplomat. "Disappointment" was one of her favorite words. She used it often.
"Will you name him?" repeated the father.
"Will I name him? Will I name him? Of course, I will name him, but he will only die like the others. Oh, so sad. Oh, such the tragedy."
The mouse mother held a handkerchief to her nose and then waved it in front of her face. She sniffed. "I will name him. Yes. I will name this mouse Despereaux, for all the sadness, for the many despairs in this place. Now, where is my mirror?"
Her husband handed her a small shard of mirror. The mouse mother, whose name was Antoinette, looked at her reflection and gasped aloud. "Toulèse," she said to one of her sons, "get for me my makeup bag. My eyes are a fright."
While Antoinette touched up her eye makeup, the mouse father put Despereaux down on a bed made of blanket scraps. The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.
The other, older mice children gathered around to stare at Despereaux.
"His ears are too big," said his sister Merlot. "Those are the biggest ears I've ever seen."
"Look," said a brother named Furlough, "his eyes are open. Pa, his eyes are open. They shouldn't be open."
It is true. Despereaux's eyes should not have been open. But they were. He was staring at the sun reflecting off his mother's mirror. The light was shining onto the ceiling in an oval of brilliance, and he was smiling up at the sight.
"There's something wrong with him," said the father. "Leave him alone."
Despereaux's brothers and sisters stepped back, away from the new mouse.
"This is the last," proclaimed Antoinette from her bed. "I will have no more mice babies. They are such the disappointment. They are hard on my beauty. They ruin, for me, my looks. This is the last one. No more."
"The last one," said the father. "And he'll be dead soon. He can't live. Not with his eyes open like that."
But, reader, he did live.
This is his story.
______
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. Text copyright (c) 2006 by Kate DiCamillo. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
著者について
Kate DiCamillo lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE, a Newbery Honor book, and THE TIGER RISING, which was a National Book Award Finalist. Kate DiCamillo says, "A few years ago, my best friend’s son asked me if I would write a story for him. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘I don’t normally write stories on command.’ ‘But this is a story that I know you would want to tell,’ he said. ‘It’s about an unlikely hero. He has exceptionally large ears.’ ‘What happens to this hero?’ I asked. ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘That’s why I want you to write it down, so we can find out.’ Well, Luke Bailey, three years later, here is the story of what happened to your exceptionally large-eared, unlikely hero."
Timothy Basil Ering is the author and illustrator of THE STORY OF FROG BELLY RAT BONE, and he also created the cover image and interior black-and-white drawings for 33 SNOWFISH by Adam Rapp. Of his inspiration for the illustrations in The TALE OF DESPEREAUX, he says, "My mother may have been a mouse in her past life, as I watched her save and help so many mice in our house while I was growing up. The illustrations I’ve done of Despereaux Tilling are, in a way, my tribute to her." Timothy Basil Ering’s artwork has appeared in books, magazines, theater sets, private murals, and fine art galleries.
Timothy Basil Ering is the author and illustrator of THE STORY OF FROG BELLY RAT BONE, and he also created the cover image and interior black-and-white drawings for 33 SNOWFISH by Adam Rapp. Of his inspiration for the illustrations in The TALE OF DESPEREAUX, he says, "My mother may have been a mouse in her past life, as I watched her save and help so many mice in our house while I was growing up. The illustrations I’ve done of Despereaux Tilling are, in a way, my tribute to her." Timothy Basil Ering’s artwork has appeared in books, magazines, theater sets, private murals, and fine art galleries.
登録情報
- ASIN : 0763625299
- 出版社 : Candlewick; Reprint版 (2006/4/11)
- 発売日 : 2006/4/11
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 272ページ
- ISBN-10 : 9780763625290
- ISBN-13 : 978-0763625290
- 対象読者年齢 : 7 ~ 10 歳
- 寸法 : 13.03 x 1.91 x 19.53 cm
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人生で出会うであろう悲劇的概念ー挫折、困難、死別、裏切り、悔悟と贖罪、
それにプラスして希望、使命というものをコミカルな、しかしシリアスなストーリー
に載せて説いた童話といえます。
大人が読んでも、そこそこ楽しめますが、物語中に描かれる不条理や苦悩は
軽めで、あくまで(日本でいうなら)小学生高学年から中学生向けに書かれた
ものという印象を受けます。
深く感動する、というほどではありませんでしたが、人間のお姫様に恋する
ネズミのDespereauxをはじめ、魅力的なキャラクターにひきつけられ、
一気に読んでしまい、ちょっといいお芝居をみた後のような読後感でした。
章ごとに主役が変わるのも、演劇っぽい雰囲気です。
それにプラスして希望、使命というものをコミカルな、しかしシリアスなストーリー
に載せて説いた童話といえます。
大人が読んでも、そこそこ楽しめますが、物語中に描かれる不条理や苦悩は
軽めで、あくまで(日本でいうなら)小学生高学年から中学生向けに書かれた
ものという印象を受けます。
深く感動する、というほどではありませんでしたが、人間のお姫様に恋する
ネズミのDespereauxをはじめ、魅力的なキャラクターにひきつけられ、
一気に読んでしまい、ちょっといいお芝居をみた後のような読後感でした。
章ごとに主役が変わるのも、演劇っぽい雰囲気です。
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Alice
5つ星のうち5.0
Beautiful
2023年10月12日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I've had my first copy of Despereaux ever since elementary school (20 years ago!) and I've read it over and over again. Because of this, it's gotten very worn. With the 20th anniversary I figured it was time for a replacement, and DiCamillo delivers once again, with her signature to prove the authenticity and love!
The original story of Despereaux, Pea, Roscuro and Mig is still as beautiful as ever, and the new story at the end of the book was a surprise and delight to read. I won't go into spoilers, but it made me happy and very curious and I hope to see even more stories set in this world of mice, soup, and princesses.
The original story of Despereaux, Pea, Roscuro and Mig is still as beautiful as ever, and the new story at the end of the book was a surprise and delight to read. I won't go into spoilers, but it made me happy and very curious and I hope to see even more stories set in this world of mice, soup, and princesses.
Hugo
5つ星のうち5.0
Excelente libro
2021年10月3日にメキシコでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Aunque decía de uso, realmente está en excelente estado, las hojas no están dobladas.
shubhrangsu dutta
5つ星のうち5.0
wonderful lessons from a small mouse
2023年12月9日にインドでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Excellent read with twists and turns. My kid and me both enjoyed this thoroughly. I would highly recommend it for kids and grown ups.
Schulze
5つ星のうち5.0
Zauberhafte Geschichte
2023年7月10日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Wirklich, eine Geschichte, die alles hat, was eine gute Geschichte braucht: Spannung, Trauer, Liebe, Freude, Angst. Ich habe das Buch auf Empfehlung der Youtuberin The Cottage Fairy (die eine hohe Affinität zu Büchern hat) gekauft. Das Buch ist wohl für Kinder, ich finde es aber in vielen Twists so tiefsinnig, dass ich es auch für Erwachsene unbedingt empfehlen würde. Der Erzählstil ist sehr angenehm - die Autorin spricht den Leser immer wieder sehr nett an und das Englisch ist m.E.in jeder Hinsicht gut bewältigbar.
Benjamin A.
5つ星のうち5.0
Mouse to the Rescue
2019年7月9日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Amazing book!!!!! I had to read it for a school book report and loved it.
A little mouse named Desperaeux Tilling)s?( is that how you spell it? whatevs) seemed very unusual when he was born. He lives in castle with the rest of his family. One day he snuck out of his mouse hole and to listen to the king play music. While he is listening , he falls in love with the princes named Pea. He lets the princess hold him and talks to her when she starts crying. That is violating two HUGE mouse rules. For this,he is sent down to the dungeons where te rats live and rats EAT mice. When he is sent down there, he persuades Gregory the jailer to save him from the rats. He finds his way back out of the dungeons but gets caught by the cook and she chops of his tale! Then he finds out that Pea , the princess, has been taken down to the dungeons by a rat and maid( the made does it because she wants to become a princess but you'll learn about that when you read the whole book). He goes back dowm there but is captured by the rats but still saves princess. There is a lot more to the book but that is what the book is mainly about. I absolutely LOVE this book and highly recommand it to others. Definitely 5 STARS!!
A little mouse named Desperaeux Tilling)s?( is that how you spell it? whatevs) seemed very unusual when he was born. He lives in castle with the rest of his family. One day he snuck out of his mouse hole and to listen to the king play music. While he is listening , he falls in love with the princes named Pea. He lets the princess hold him and talks to her when she starts crying. That is violating two HUGE mouse rules. For this,he is sent down to the dungeons where te rats live and rats EAT mice. When he is sent down there, he persuades Gregory the jailer to save him from the rats. He finds his way back out of the dungeons but gets caught by the cook and she chops of his tale! Then he finds out that Pea , the princess, has been taken down to the dungeons by a rat and maid( the made does it because she wants to become a princess but you'll learn about that when you read the whole book). He goes back dowm there but is captured by the rats but still saves princess. There is a lot more to the book but that is what the book is mainly about. I absolutely LOVE this book and highly recommand it to others. Definitely 5 STARS!!