Captivated by his 3 years-old daughter Emma (nickname Chou-Chou), Claude Debussy composed The Children's Corner, both to entertain her and to explore music through the eyes of a child. The Children's Corner isn't for children to play, nor is it exclusively about them: it incorporates both the experience of being young and the nostalgia of watching a child grow up. Inspired by Chou-Chou's stuffed elephant who apparently needed a bedtime story before going to sleep, Debussy re-imagined the animal's sleepy footsteps through a progression of climbing and falling keystrokes.