Miss Bindergarten's kindergarten puts on a circus, handling everything from building the sets to performing the numbers. Colored text emphasizes the letters of the alphabet in order.
Describes the performing career of the elephant Old Bet, whose traveling exhibition under the management of Hackaliah Bailey in the early nineteenth century gave rise to the tradition of the American circus.
When Detective John Quincy Jones is told to find the circus's missing elephant by nightfall, his faithful canine companion must come to the rescue as usual.
Staying behind when their circus moves on, a young clown and a troupe of baby animals put on a special Christmas Eve show for an Italian village too poor to celebrate the holiday.
When Arthur catches chicken pox a week before his family is supposed to go to the circus, his sister, jealous of the special treatment he gets, invites a friend to go in her brother's place.
