Mirette on the High Wire

The high wire walkers are an amazing breed of performer. They balance on the smallest of walkways and then add in tricks and props making their feats even more amazing. This picture book about Mirette learning to walk on the high wire is a Caldecott winner and a classic in the read aloud arena. Set......more

The setting is a hotel in France a 100 years ago. Mirette helps her mother who runs a great hotel for traveling artists like circus performers and people in traveling shows. Bellini comes to rent a room and Mirette finds him walking on the clothesline. Mirette becomes obsessed and she starts to prac......more

Mirette is a young girl who lives in Paris. Set around 100 years ago, we meet Mirette in her mother's boarding house. When a new lodger arrives who has the unusual occupation of being a tightrope walker, Mirette is inspired to learn this precarious pastime. The illustrations are nice enough but I fo......more

When a tall, sad-faced stranger comes to live at the boarding house run by her mother in nineteenth-century Paris, young Mirette Gâteau quickly discovers that there is more to this new lodger than meets the eye. Happening upon him practicing the high-wire in the courtyard, Mirette is enchanted, and......more

I totally understand why this book is an award-winning book. The story is very uplifting and tells children to never give up on their dreams no matter what anyone thinks or tells them. Mirette was insistent on learning on how to walk a tight rope and Bellini refused to teach her, so what did she do,......more