![]() ![]() Egan is a master of simple language and deadpan humor. His watercolors portray gentle, realistic versions of wildly unrealistic romps - Paris streets filled with animals strolling, juggling, carrying umbrellas. Egan's art is beautifully funny, in the spirit of Arnold Lobel, James Marshall, and Felicia Bond. The duck imitates a Parisian mime, rings Notre Dame's bells, and launches some unusual paper airplanes - with comically catastrophic results. Dodsworth, the responsible one warns: " 'You can't cause any trouble here.' 'I wouldn't dream of it,' said the duck." Chaos, of course, ensues. Dodsworth and the duck are a classic duo, somewhere between Frog and Toad and Laurel and Hardy. ![]() but trouble is never far from a misbehaving duck! The Barnes & Noble ReviewÄodsworth and the duck, those popular world travelers, sail straight from Dodsworth in New York into their second adventure, Dodsworth in Paris, written and illustrated by Tim Egan. It looks like it is going to turn out to be a great vacation in Paris. They climb the Eiffel Tower, and the duck even finds some bent-over guy who rings bells for a living. It is their first time in the City of Lights, and they are ready for some adventures magnifique! Right away they see mimes, painters, and people wearing berets. Dodsworth and his (crazy) friend the duck have just arrived in Paris. ![]()
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