Title: Seven dancing dolls
Description: A young Polish princess, disenchanted by her dull music lessons, finds her interest revived when her father brings her a gift of seven tiny dolls that dance when placed on the piano's lid. The dolls become her greatest treasure and she is crushed when her favorite goes missing after a visit from a charming pianist named Frederic Chopin. Through her new friend and her dancing dolls, the princess learns that music is also a great treasure.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, true story, dolls, princesses, Chopin, Frederic Chopin
Places: Warsaw, Poland
People: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Time periods: 1830s