Paris Cat

This is a disappointing sequel to Leslie Baker's "Third Story Cat," which is one of our favorite children's picturebooks. This time around, Baker's places her feline heroine in Paris, and the plot is very flimsy, quite obviously the story is just an excuse to make some pretty paintings of Paris... but the characters and the drama are negligible, which makes the book negligible as well. Try the first book instead -- it's quite lovely and magical!

I think the book was okay. But I am only ten so I do not like to read 1st grade books! So kids who like Easy Readers I encourage you to read the adventurist book called Paris Cat!

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.

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