Anatole's job as a taster in a cheese factory is endangered by a marauding cat.
Content in his role as an influential anonymous taste-tester at Duvall's Cheese Factory, Anatole the honorable mouse is dismayed when the factory owner, unaware that his star taster is a mouse, brings his pet cat to the factory, in a re-release of a Caldecott Honor-winning book. Reprint.
Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice-President in charge of Cheese Tasting at Duvall's cheese factory. He works in secret at night--the people at Duvall have no idea their mysterious taster is really a mouse! So M'sieu Duvall thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat to the factory...Clever Anatole must act to protect his job, and his life! He must do what no mouse has done before--find a way to bell the cat. Bonne chance, Anatole!From the Hardcover edition.