Tag: Tale of Despereaux

• Let’s Talk Tropes: Happily Ever Afters

  I’m not sure when happy endings fell out of fashion, but I do know that present-day narratives generally strive for a distorted concept of realism where the grittier and darker it is, the more “realistic” it is. At the very least, this is the case for fantasy novels, so much so that the concept of…

  Katie Bachelder

  April 16, 2021

  For Writers: Builder’s Theory

  books, fairy tales, fantasy writing, Good Omens, happily ever after, Lord of the Rings, plot, Starless Sea, Tale of Despereaux, Tolkien, tropes, twilight, writing

• Tale of Despereaux Movie Analysis

  I knew from the moment I started my Middle Grade Reread Challenge, I wanted to end with Tale of Despereaux so I might watch the animated film to see what comparisons could be made. Of course, Tale of Despereaux is not a long book–at 270 pages, it’s actually the shortest book of the challenge–and I was…

  Katie Bachelder

  September 23, 2020

  On Stories and Ethics, Reading Reflections

  books, fairy tales, Fantasy, middle grade, Tale of Despereaux, theme

• The Middle Grade Reread Challenge

  I’ve always been a book nerd, even when I was young. The kind that read on the schoolbus, that always went to the library during a free period, that sneakily read books by the light that seeped under the crack of my bedroom door at night. Some of them, such as the likes of The…

  Katie Bachelder

  August 3, 2020

  For Fun :)

  Imaginarium Geographica, Inkheart, James A. Owen, Kate DiCamillo, reading, reading challenge, Shannon Hale, Tale of Despereaux