Review of An Armadillo in Paris By Julie Kraulis

I received this book via Netgalley in exchange for a review. It's publication date is October 14, 2014.


Okay, I know. It's a kids book. But a lot of kids books are adorable and contain beautiful illustrations! Now since this was an ARC, it was an uncorrected copy and therefore very difficult to read. Some of the words for one sentence were mixed in with a different sentence and because of that, it was sometimes hard to tell what I was reading, but, being a kids book, I was able to catch the gist of it.

An Armadillo in Paris is about an young armadillo named Arlo who has grown up listening to the stories his uncle told him about all of his travels all over the world. His uncle wrote down all of the stories so that one day, Arlo could visit all of those places and so that he would know exactly what to see when he was there. In this book, Arlo visits Paris, but the way the author sets it up with his uncle's journals opens up the possibility for future books with Arlo visiting numerous other places. His uncle wrote about la Dame de Fer, or the Iron Lady. Every place that the uncle tells Arlo to visit is a buildup to meeting the Iron Lady. At the end of the book, Arlo finally gets to meet her. The author then writes a short history about the Iron Lady, which I think would be a great thing to do for numerous other famous landmarks in possible future Arlo books. It's a fun and interesting way to teach kids the history of numerous famous locations while at the same time teaching them about different countries and cities. I definitely give this a five star rating.