I have worked with the book, The Tale of Despereaux, to create an arts-integrated novel study. I hope to share more of that work with you in the future. But for today, let's just introduce the novel and the movie with a short read aloud and the trailer for the recent movie. For students who do not visualize when they read/listen, do you think it would be beneficial to show a movie trailer such as this before you read the book aloud or assign it as reading for a novel study? For those who can visualize well for themselves, do you think seeing the characters as they are depicted in the movie trailer would discourage or replace their own images? Let's have that conversation in the comments for this post...