Everybody Bonjours!

Starred ReviewKids may well demand to be taken to the nearest passport office after finishing this light-as-a-souffle salute to the City of Lights. On vacation with her parents (clearly well-heeled) and little brother, a girl embraces her role as tourist, savoring all the places where one can say "Bonjour": On a barge trip down the Seine, at the top of the Tour Eiffel and Notre Dame, in a chic boutique--or, as Kimmelman (Dance, Sing, Remember) puts it in her economical text: "Doing chores./ Eating petits fours./ Everybody bonjours!" McMenemy's (Waggle) mixed-media images, mostly full-page scenes of classic locations, are a stylish yet timeless melange of fauvist whimsy and affectionate reportage; the days are sunny, the flowers are in brilliant bloom, and every Parisian is smiling. A bubbly, illustrated afterward offers a soup-on of additional information on each of the sites that appear in the pages. Fantastique! Ages 5-8. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved