On Christmas Day,  I took my family to see a movie at the theater; the title we decided on? The Tale of Despereaux.

I am unfamiliar with the book it is based on, but the author, Kate Dicamillo, is well known - at least according to my in-laws.

The story is about a mouse (Despereaux) who does not see himself as a simple mouse; he considers himself as a Gentleman. He lives in a world where the King, and all his Land, love soup. They have a yearly soup festival where all subjects gather around the castle walls waiting for the aroma of the soup to fill the air and signal the beginning of the great soup celebration… only something horrible has gone wrong, and the King has banished all soup-related activities from his Land.

The sole cause for this drastic measure? A Rat!

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