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Desbarollda, the Waltzing Mouse (Paperback)

by Noel Langley (Author), Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Durrant Publishing; New edition edition (16 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905946023
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905946020
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.2 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 350,222 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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But the most charming book of all is a reissue of Noel Langley's Desbarollda, the Waltzing Mouse (Durrant Books, £9.99). It's hard to know whether the mannered prose or the drawings by the great Edward Ardizzone is more captivating.
-- Melanie McDonagh --London Evening Standard, December 17, 2009

This immaculate pastiche of the writing of an age more gracious than ours is a fable of the irreconcilable desires of men and women, charmingly illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, with notes on the author and illustrator.
-- William Charlton --The Tablet, November 28, 2009

I read the first paragraph and was hooked. A sixty-three page eighteenth century novel in the grand manner about a waltzing mouse. Of course.
-- Neil Gaiman --Neil Gaiman's Blog, February 10, 2007

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A story full of drama, word play, and gentle satire on literary conventions, making it a delightful read for children and adults. In the first edition, the book was described as "Mr. Noel Langley's epic pastiche in the grand classic heroic manner, wherein he pays glowing homage to the nice sensibility and decorous passions that are the special elixir of the artistic temperament, whether it inhabit Heathcliff, Manon Lescaut, the Mock Turtle or Desbarollda the Waltzing Mouse." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very witty!, 6 Feb 2009
I disvovered this after my daughter and I finished reading the equally wonderful 'Land of green ginger' by the same author and illustrator. It's very funny with its faux 18th century language. The mice are very class conscious! And of course the illustrations are beautiful. My daughter was 7 when we read it and loved it. But I think older children would enjoy it too.
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4.0 out of 5 stars beautifully written but not sure about the moral of the "tail", 28 Jan 2010
By Fifi Bergere (London, UK) - See all my reviews
Written in the 1940's before the horrendous and damaging dumbing down of childrens' books this is a beautifully written flowery, melodramatic tale using vocabulary that will stretch most adults but younger children should enjoy it if it's read to them in an over the top, dramatic, comic way.

Desbarollda lives in a castle (her mother was a field mouse who married up). Sadly many of her relatives get eaten by the castle cat but when the Duke's son discovers that Desbarollda can dance he gives her a safe and luxurious life within a guilded cage and she dances on her very own stage in front of nobility. Only one thing is missing. Desbarollda is lonely until she meets the broodingly handsome Egmont. But the course of true love never did run smooth...

Looses one star because the moral of the tale seems to be that a woman should not choose a career over a man which takes feminism back to the er... 1940's.

Let little girls read it but with the caveat that they should never have to choose between a man and a career - the right man will want her to flourish in her given field.
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