Paris Cat

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Summary: Beautiful pictures!
Review: This book has a very short story, but the pictures are wonderful. It is like a brief postcard visit to Paris.

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Summary: Make believe it's April in Paris
Review: This spare travelogue of a story tells of a cat that runs away from her owner during a visit to Paris. The story, though illustrated with beautiful watercolors, begins rather abruptly. It's a little hard at first to recognize that Alice is the name of the cat and not the little girl, who is named Annie.

The story gives us a cat's-eye view of Paris, the city of lights. The pictures contain a lot of the usual sites of the city on the Seine, including the ubiquitous Frenchman with long baguettes of bread in the basket of his bike. Since the book is targeted to the non-French, throwing in an illustration of the Eiffel Tower, easily recognizable even to young children, might have been nice.

A nice book to read when you want to make believe you are in Paris in April.