Clair-de-Lune

Posted on July 13, 2012. Filed under: Ballet, Girls' Books | Tags: ballet, girls, inability to speak, magic, magic world, mice, speaking, swans, talking animals |

Young Clair-de-Lune is the daughter of a famous dancer in the 1850’s. Her father is gone, never talked about, and her mother is gone, too. Clair-de-Lune’s mother was called La Lune, and she danced a solo in a ballet about swans long before Anna Pavlova and “The Dying Swan.”  One night, when Clair-de-Lune was just […]