Tropes found in both the books and the cartoon: There was also a musical stage show in 2014 that adapted the first two books into a single performance, which was met with great commercial and critical success. Most famously, the Canadian animation studio Nelvana produced a 26-episode Animated Adaptation that originally aired on YTV in Canada in 1998, and later on CBS' Saturday Morning Cartoon block that same year. Additionally, Anatole and his adventures have been adapted into other mediums. The series consists of:Īnatole has been a highly successful series, with the first and the second books winning Caldecott Awards the year after they were published. The first Anatole book was originally published in 1956, and was followed by 9 additional books between 19. When not working however, he spends time with his wife Doucette and his six children, Paul, Paulette, Claude, Claudette, Georges, and Georgette, as well as his best friend Gaston. Nonetheless, Anatole is respected by his fellow mice and lauded by humans for his refined tastes.

But because he's a mouse, he must work in secret to avoid being spotted by the humans, who are unaware that their mysterious cheese connoisseur is in fact a rodent.

He is a hardworking little French mouse who on the outskirts of Paris in a village of fellow mice and works in the city at a cheese factory, tasting their cheeses and evaluating them. Anatole is the title character of a series of children's books written by American author Eve Titus (who also created Basil of Baker Street, the inspiration for Disney's The Great Mouse Detective) and illustrated by Paul Galdone.

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