Swinging Clouds — A Book Review

Trust what the future holds, even when everything tempts you to believe the path ahead is wrong. This is the invitation Baldassarre extends—the city's finest woodcarver, buried under endless orders for rocking horses. Christmas draws nearer. The commissions pile up without mercy until one exhausted evening, a mistake: he carves a sheep instead of a horse. It is beautiful. But it is not what his customers expect, and so it sits unsold—alone, rejected—until someone walks into Baldassarre's workshop. Someone who has the courage to be different, who possesses the imagination and creativity to desire and dream something else. One person. A small girl with the power to set change in motion.