Max: E is for Egan

I read Dodsworth in Paris by Tim Egan.

In this book, the main character is a mouse named Dodsworth; he has a duck for a pet.  Dodsworth likes to travel so he went to Paris.  At a restaurant, they forget they don't have euros yet, so Dodsworth goes to the bank and leaves the duck behind.  The duck saw a mime and imitated him and so people threw euros at Duck.  Then they went to the Eiffel Tower where disaster struck! Duck started making paper airplanes out of his euros and threw them to see how far they would go.  If you do this, you run out of money!!  When Dodsworth goes to the Louvre, he sees the Mona Lisa and makes a painting of Paris; no art gallery will buy it but overnight, it was drizzly which blurred the painting.  Then an Impressionist came along and bought it for 100 euros.  So then Dodsworth and Duck had money for riding a balloon to celebrate.

I liked that Duck made a beret out of a nut! Duck was a big troublemaker and that was good (though I also liked that he helped too).  The pictures are really good.  I would recommend it to someone learning to read because it's fun and the words are pretty easy (even the words in French!).