Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother\'s boarding house.
Emily Arnold McCully\'s sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl..
And it is she who must teach him courage once again.
Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear.
But Mirette doesn\'t know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini--master wire-walker.
When the widow\'s daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it.
One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau--a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself.
Full color.
When Mirette discovers that fear has kept him from performing for years, she sets out to show him that sometimes a student can be the greatest teacher of all.
But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird.
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother\'s boarding house
