"Who does this child belong to?"
Perhaps this sounds familiar -- it's usually the first question that grownups ask when they find a kid who seems too little to be on his own. Hmm, he's lost, they reason, and needs help to find his parents.
How come children always have to belong to someone? Sometimes they're quite happy on their own and don't want to be found. Like Bo, Prosper, Mosca, Riccio and Hornet, the five street children who band together to survive in Venice -- in this English translation of the immensely popular German original.