circus

Fifth-grader Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help find a pickpocket at the circus.

Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language. Includes illustrations of some of the signs they use.

Describes how circuses got their start and what is happening under the big top today.

Chicken Chuck the rooster, who has set himself up as boss of the barnyard by virtue of the special blue feather in the middle of his forehead, finds his authority undermined by a circus horse with two blue feathers.

In 1892, Max and Jodi, young employees of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.

Curious George becomes the star of the circus after he inadvertently gets in the way of the acrobats' performance.

When Aunt Molly takes Cam and her friend Eric to the circus, their box of caramel popcorn mysteriously disappears.

A farm family takes off a half day from school and chores to go see all the amazing things at the circus.

When he gets too old to perform his act in the circus, Barkley tries to find something else to do.

Presents poems about the circus illustrated with paintings by such artists as Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Calder, and photographs from the Ringling Brothers and Big Apple circuses.