TY  - BOOK
AU  - DiCamillo,Kate
AU  - Sardà,Júlia
TI  - The Hotel Balzaar
T2  - Norendy Tales
SN  - 9781536223316
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Children of working mothers
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Hotels
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Storytellilng
KW  - Puppets
KW  - Toys
KW  - Fairy tales
KW  - Working mothers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Hotels, motels, etc
KW  - Ciction
KW  - Fantasy
KW  - Famtasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novellas
N1  - 07-10; 02-05
N2  - "At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta's mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly--like a little mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman, study the painting of an angel's wing over the fireplace, and watch a cat chase a mouse around the face of the grandfather clock, all the while dreaming of the return of her soldier father, who has gone missing. One day, a mysterious countess with a parrot checks in, promising a story--in fact, seven stories in all, each to be told in its proper order. As the stories unfold, Marta begins to wonder: could the secret to her father's disappearance lie in the countess's tales? Book two in a trio of novellas bound by place and mood--with elegant line art by Júlia Sardà."--
ER  -