
The teacher smiles and encourages the children. We can just see her behind the curtains behind the piano. She's one of the smallest children waiting her turn to play. Little Momo is terrified of her very first piano recital. She holds on tightly to her sheet music.” Even the youngest readers will be able to follow this story through the beautiful and fantastically detailed illustrations, which perfectly capture Momo's emotions as she transitions from the real to the imagined and back again. Momo serves as a wonderful example to children, using the power of her imagination to understand and work through her feelings. The imaginative narrative is woven around the common childhood experience of anxiety, felt by performers but also by every child who faces a new life challenge. Here's another magical, dreamlike picture book from Akiko Miyakoshi, the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author-illustrator. The mouse audience is so appreciative! But then, as she rises to take her bow, Momo is surprised to discover - it isn't a mouse audience at all! The mouseling invites Momo through a small door backstage, where Momo is amazed to find a miniature theater filled with an audience of finely dressed mice there to watch singers, dancers and circus performers! When it's the mouseling's turn, Momo agrees to accompany her on piano. " It's a mouseling! And the little mouse is nervous about her first performance, too. " Then she hears a voice nearby, also saying, "I'll be okay.

As she nervously waits for her turn to play, she tells herself, "I'll be okay.

It's the day of Momo's first piano recital.
