The Tale of Despereaux has an all star cast telling the story of a small mouse with big ears who thinks of himself as a Gentleman. As with all fairy tales, it is necessary for someone’s mother to die, that someone is usually the hero of the story. Not so in The Tale of Despereaux. The poor mother in this case is the Queen of Dor, who is frightened by a rat named Roscuro, faints, and then drowns in a bowl of soup. Dor is famous for it’s soup, but now the King of Dor hates soup and rats and…