by Eve Titus
Anatole is a tidy, gently comic children's fable about an honorable mouse who earns his family's supper by leaving tasting notes at a cheese factory. Language is plain and economical, with short scenes and a tone suited to read-alouds and early readers. It’s most useful as a calming bedtime story or a prompt for simple conversations about work, pride, and manners. Limitation: the plot and phrasing are repetitive and restrained, so adult readers seeking narrative richness or modern pacing may find it slight.
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Anatole is a most honorable mouse. When he realizes that humans are upset by mice sampling their leftovers, he is shocked! He must provide for his beloved familybut he is determined to find a way to earn his supper. And so he heads for the tasting room at the Duvall Cheese Factory. On each cheese, he leaves a small note"good," "not so good," "n...
Difficulty:hard
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