Mirette on the High Wire-HB Children's Values Books With courage

With courage

and Hilo to follow her

is at once simple

On his first day of life

a garden comes alive with creatures

Mirette on the High Wire-HB Children's Values Books With courageOne day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau a sad faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini master wire walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold