Titus ventures out of the Duvale Cheese Factory in this book to give Anatole and his family the adventure of a lifetime. The ever-enterprising mouse brings home a damaged kite with the idea to repair it and create an amusing toy for his children. How could he predict the disastrous results that occur when the kite is repaired and a wayward gust of wind blows the family high into the skies over Paris! Well, maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to put a family of mice on a human-sized kite, but all is made well through Anatole’s bargain with a bird (for a partial rescue) and his sacrifice of the kite material to make parachutes to get his family safely to the ground. Only Anatole could turn this situation to his advantage - if the Parisian skies don’t daunt him, what more challenge can the rest of the world offer? I guess we’ll see when he jaunts off to Italy in the next book! ( )

In this adventure, Anatole finds a kite, fixes it up with the help of his family, and then gets blown away over Paris on the kite. A bird is able to tow the kite to the Eiffel Tower; once there, Anatole and his family must find a way down from the top of the tower. As with the other Anatole books, I really enjoy the limited color palatte and the splashes of blue and red. Anatole only fails by being a little bit too perfect and awesome at everything he does, ha ha. ( )