Book Thoughts: Mirette on the High Wire (McCully)

• a tightrope walking adventure
• fiction with some biographical elements*
• set in Paris, France 100 years ago
• unique and exciting
• clean language

Type: partially-biographical picture book
Ages: 4-8
Author/Illustrator: Emily Arnold McCully

*This story is half about a fictional girl who becomes the protégée of an historical tightrope daredevil man. His name is changed, but some of his feats are mentioned.

This was a lovely book!