Cl?ment, Claude

An outsider in a primitive hunting society learns about the power of music as both an agent of destruction and consolation.

Contains a guide to overcoming shyness, including information that shows young people how to make friends, speak their mind, and let other people get to know them without changing their whole personality.

A wayfarer is ridiculed by villagers when he claims that his profession is polishing the stars, but the boy who follows him sees him climb a ladder into the sky.

Transfixed by the beauty of a passing flock of white swans, a Japanese painter finds that he cannot work until he sees them again.