Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary

Georges Blanchard is revered in the small French town of Mireville both as a master serinette maker and for a miraculous incident in his childhood that earned him the title The Sun-Bringer. As his firstborn son,Henri Blanchard is expected to follow in his footstepsbut Henri would rather learn to make lace than music boxes. When Henri discovers a stash of American letters in his father’s drawerhe learns he’s not the firstborn son of Georges Blanchard at all: Henri has an older half-brother born to one of Georges’s American customers. When he crosses the ocean to encounter his half-brother at lastHenri discovers that there’s an entire world beyond Mirevilleace and there may be a perfect place for him yet.