The Girl Who Wanted to Dance

A dancer’s passion and a family’s love collide in this beautiful and compelling picture book. When Clara’s beloved grandmother dies, her father withdraws from the world into the tall house on the square, where he imposes a reign of silence and forbids his daughter from dancing, the thing she most loves in the world. Clara longs to leave her sombre, silent home, and one evening when a dance troupe performs in the square, she escapes to join the dancers. But Clara’s desire to dance at all costs leads her to make an extraordinary discovery - she is not the first woman in her family to choose dancing over the people she loves…