Rosa's Animals Format:Hardcover aided by a young girl

aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability

When a flirtatious aide-de-camp

their puppets seem to move without string or stick—a trade secret

When street magician Carter runs away

So when Mallie is chosen for a dangerous competition in which daring (and ideally

Rosa's Animals Format:Hardcover aided by a young girlPainter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur (18221899) led a highly nontraditional life, especially for a woman in the nineteenth century. She kept lions as pets, was awarded the Legion of Honor by Empress Eugnie, and befriended Buffalo Bill Cody. She became a painter at a time when women were often only reluctantly educated as artists. Her unconventional artistic work habits, including visiting slaughterhouses to sketch an animals anatomy and wearing mens