Kids will take the story at face value, but there is plenty of humor for adults, too. The Tour de France, Impressionist art, and berets also make their way into the book (Duck makes a beret out out of an acorn cap). Up in the belltower, he finds "a bent-over fellow ringing the bells." There's a nice visual of this hunchbacked bellringer. I think the funniest is when the duck goes to investigate the bells ringing in Norte Dame. There are lots of funny bits in Dodsworth in Paris. And Dodsworth's appreciation for his feathered friend comes across on every page. But the duck keeps Dodsworth on his toes, and open to new adventures. This might have been ok, except that he made the planes from the money that Dodsworth was carrying in his backpack. For example, the duck decides to fly paper airplanes off of the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower. Dodsworth is the practical one, while the duck is constantly trying new things and getting into scrapes. Dodsworth in Paris is a very early reader (four chapters, with color illustrations taking up more than half of each page) in which Dodsworth, a humanized and human-sized mouse, and his friend the duck continue their travels. I loved the first two books in Tim Egan's Dodsworth series: The Pink Refrigerator and Dodsworth in New York, and I was eager to get my hands on this third one.
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