circus

Determined to save an old elephant from the slaughterhouse, two circus children kidnap the animal and begin a dangerous journey, traveling by night across the English countryside to a safari park where they hope to find the elephant a home.

Lacking the talent to be a circus performer like his father and grandfather, Thomas runs away, only to return to help his sick friend Bavarotti the elephant and thus reveal his true calling as an animal doctor.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski is haunted by memories of his life as a young veterinarian for a circus during the Great Depression, recalling the bond he developed with Rosie, the show's troubled elephant, and Marlena, the star of the equestrian act who was married to August, who the head animal trainer.

Arthuro the aardvark catches chicken pox a week before he is supposed to go to the circus.

Brave some of the world's fastest rollercoasters, learn how to fly on the circus trapeze, go backstage at a mega-rock concert, and step into the ring with a real WCW wrestler.

Text and accompanying photographic illustrations cover circus performers and related history, fact, and lore from 1793 to the present.

A circus known as Le Cirque des R?ves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.

A rhyming alphabetical description of Big Top life and attractions, interspersed with facts about particular circus acts and personalities of the past.

When they are stranded on a ferris wheel, Madeline and Pepito are rescued by gypsies, with whom they live for a while.

After moving to a house in the country, Timothy wonders how he will make any friends, but his problem is solved when he finds an imaginative way to rescue a stranded circus train.