Clair de Lune

Clair-de-Lune lives with her grandmother in the tippy-top of a peculiar old building. Every day she practices ballet, just like her mother before her-the famous ballerina who died when Clair-de-Lune was just a baby. Since that day, Clair-de-Lune hasn't uttered a word.

Then one day the girl who cannot speak meets a remarkable mouse who can. Bonaventure dreams of founding a dancing school just for mice-but he dreams of helping his new friend, too. Soon the brave little… (more)

Clair-de-Lune lives with her grandmother in the tippy-top of a peculiar old building. Every day she practices ballet, just like her mother before her-the famous ballerina who died when Clair-de-Lune was just a baby. Since that day, Clair-de-Lune hasn't uttered a word.

Then one day the girl who cannot speak meets a remarkable mouse who can. Bonaventure dreams of founding a dancing school just for mice-but he dreams of helping his new friend, too. Soon the brave little mouse introduces Clair-de-Lune to a hidden world inside, and yet somehow beyond, her building—a world that slowly begins to open her heart. Maybe one day her dreams will come true, too.

From the Hardcover edition.