Anatole and the Robot

Anatole #3

by Eve Titus

Blue cloth over hardcover with black mouse peddling on bicycle on lower right corner of front cover. Corners of book are worn. Inside cover page has a green X and stamp from the school library. Written on inside title page in small writing is 3742. No dust cover. Binding intact. Stain on back inside cover.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Eve Titus was the author of numerous bestselling and beloved children's books.

Her most famous characters include Anatole, a French mouse and Basil of Baker Street, a mouse who works as a private eye. Her book, Anatole, won the 1957 Caldecott Honor Book award.

She died in 2002 in Orlando, Florida.

Reviews

[Calista · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is similar to the previous 2 stories. The art is the same and the characters are the same. In this volume, Mr Duval gets the measles and asks his inventor brother to take over the factory, but not to change anything. Of course he does not listen and he brings in a robot to do the cheese tasting and fires Anatole right away.

Well, our hero still goes each night to the factory to oversee what is happening for he knows it will not go well. Anatole is full of much honor. As you can imagine, Anatole has to save the factory. This one has become part of the Anatole formula. I enjoy these stories which is why I read another one, but they aren’t as shining and new as they were. Still, I would like to read at least one more of these. I like the world of Anatole.

The kids think these stories are cute. There is a robot in this story, so you can imagine that my nephew gave this 5 stars. It was the perfect combo of cute and robots. The niece gave this 3 stars.

[Luisa Knight · Rating 5 out of 5]

As can always be expected, another delightful Anatole story from Titus!

Ages: 5 - 12

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[Jaimie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another simple story about an entrepreneurial French mouse, Anatole, this book is not! Titus and Galdone shift perspective to comment on the rise of technology in the workplace through the introduction of an untoward robot who attempts to take over Anatole’s job at the Duvale cheese factory. The robot in question is not actually bad at its job of tasting cheese (a surprising turn, but it would have been too simple a motif to have the robot just be incompetent at the job), but their prevailing theme is that even if machinery can technically replace human (or mouse) workers the artistry required for many of these jobs cannot be replicated. Not really a surprising motif coming from the French, who very much value artistic inclinations in the workplace, but one that is important nonetheless!

[Lagobond · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little more chaotic/violent than the other books, but told with panache and overall a fun romp.