Mirette On The High Wire (Mccully)

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Description: Mirette On The High Wire (Mccully)

Genre: Social Issues - Emotions and Feelings; Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Children: Kindergarten; Tightrope walking; Classics; Performing Arts - General; Juvenile Fiction / Sports and Recreation / General; Paris (France);

Average Review: 4.5 stars

Review: The Power of Practice: Mirette is a young girl who works in her mother's hotel. This hotel is frequented by entertainers and performers. One day an interesting man checks in. Mirette discovers him walking on the clothesline one day and becomes fascinated with wire walking. She gives it a try and promptly falls off. She keeps trying and trying during every free moment and gradually gets better. When she learns the new guest is the greatest wire walker of all time, Mirette pleads for him to teach her. He is reluctant at first but, having seen her dedication to practice, relents and begins to teach her and eventually Mirette learns his dark secret. I won't give away the ending so you will have to read it to find out. The story is entertaining and the illustrations are delightful. But what I really like about this book is that it does a better job than so many others at showing how long practice can take and how willing someone has to be to undertake it. Too many books seem to have the character become a great ball player, ballerina, magician, whatever in almost no time at all. We use this book when one of our kids gets disgruntled over not learning a new instrument on the third try or some such thing. All in all a fun book with a good lesson to be leaned (and it won't take months to learn it).