Milli,Jack and the Dancing Cat — Stephen Michael King

Milli is a person who can take a nothing . . . and turn it into a Something. But in her plain old town full of bustling people, all Milli does is make plain, ordinary shoes. Until a pair of wandering minstrels come to town -- Jack and the Dancing Cat. They teach Milli how to dance -- the two-step, the three-step, and the tricky twisting backward sliding four-step -- which makes her feel brave and free. Brave enough to create many wonderful Somethings: musical instruments with sounds never heard before, purple satin slippers with bells, and more. And Milli never again makes a plain, ordinary anything.

From the creator of Emily Loves to Bounce comes a playful, inspired book about the need each of us feels to be ourselves.