Circus Books

Susan Erhardt typed this list when I asked for help on gathering book lists..

nonfiction:

• Arnold, Caroline -- Juggler
• Baker, Eugene -- Parades
• Beaton, Clare -- Face Painting
• Blumberg, Rhoda -- Jumbo
• Christensen, Kathy -- Let's Be Circus Animals
• Christensen, Kathy -- Let's Be Circus Stars
• Cross, Helen Reeder -- The Real Tom Thumb
• Cushman, Kathleen -- Circus Dreams: The Making of a Young Artist
• DeRegniers, Beatrice -- Circus
• Duncan, Lois -- The Circus Comes Home
• Fenten, D. X. -- Behind the Circus Scene
• Fleming, Alice -- P.T. Barnum
• Glendinning, Richard -- Circus Days Under the Big Top
• Harmer, Mabel -- The Circus
• Harris, Steven Michael -- This is my Trunk
• Hintz, Martin -- Circus Workin's
• Hopkins, Lee Bennett -- Circus! Circus!: Poems
• Hubbard, Freeman H. -- Great Days of the Circus
• Johnson, Pamela -- How to Draw the Circus
• Kelly, Karin -- Careers With the Circus
• Kirk, Rhina -- Circus Heroes and Heroines
• Klayer, Connie -- Circus Time : How to Put On Your Own Show
• Krementz, Jill -- A Very Young Circus Flyer
• Laslo, Cynthia -- The Rosen Photo Guide to a Career in the Circus
• McClung, Robert -- Old Bet and the Start of the American Circus
• McGovern, Ann -- ...If You Lived With the Circus
• Monroe, Lucy -- 50 Nifty Ways to Paint Your Face
• Pinsent, Lynsy -- Face Painting
• Powledge, Fred -- Born on the Circus
• Prelutsky, Jack -- Circus
• Radlauer, Ed -- Clown Mania
• Roalf, Peggy -- Circus
• Robson, Denny -- Masks and Funny Faces
• Saville, Lynn -- Horses in the Circus Ring
• Shay, Arthur -- What Happens at the Circus
• Snazaroo -- Five-Minute Faces
• Sobol, Harriet -- Clowns
• Walton, Rick -- Clowing Around: Jokes About the Circus
• Weil, Lisl -- Let's Go To the Circus
• West, Robin -- Paper Circus: How to Create Your Own Circus

Junior Fiction:

• Alcock, Vivien -- Travelers By Night
• Cross, Gillian -- Great American Elephant Chase
• Harvey, Dean -- The Secret Elephant of Harlan Kooter
• Hughes, Dean -- Jelly's Circus
• Johnson, Lois -- The Runaway Clown
• Otis, James -- Toby Tyler, or, Ten Weeks With a Circus
• Perl, Lila -- Tybee Trimble's Hard Times
• Smucker, Barbara -- Incredible Jumbo: A Novel
• York, Carol Beach -- Miss Know It All and the Three-Ring Circus

Picture Books and Beginning Readers:

• Bach, Alice -- Millicent the Magnificent
• Berenstain, Stan -- C is for Clown
• Brunhoff, Larent de -- Babar's Little Circus Star
• Bushnell, Jack -- Circus of the Wolves
• Chwast, Seymour -- The Twelve Circus Rings
• Collington, Peter -- The Midnight Circus
• DePaola, Tomie -- Jingle, the Christmas Clown
• DuBois, William Pene -- The Great Geppy
• Ehlert, Lois -- Circus
• Ernest, Lisa Campbell -- Ginger Jumps
• Flack, Marjorie -- Wait for William
• Freeman, Don -- Bearymore
• Garland, Michael -- Circus Girl
• Goennel, Heidi -- The Circus
• Hillert, Margaret -- Circus Fun
• Maestro, Betsy -- Harriet Goes to the Circus
• Manushkin, Fran -- Hocus and Pocus at the Circus
• Mayer, Mercer -- Liverwurst is Missing
• Merveille, David -- Thomas, the Circus Boy
• Moncure, Jane -- Word Bird's Circus Surprise
• Ostheeren, Ingrid -- Jonathan Mouse at the Circus
• Peet, Bill -- Randy's Dandy Lions
• Petersham, Maud -- The Circus Baby
• Quackenbush, Robert -- Detective Mole and the Circus Mystery
• Rascal -- Oregon's Journey
• Rounds, Glen -- The Day the Circus Came to Lone tree
• Schulz, Charles -- Life is a Circus, Charlie Brown
• Spier, Peter -- Peter Spier's Circus!
• Stidston, Jo -- Clowns
• Vincent, Gabrielle -- Ernest and Celestine at the Circus
• Wildsmith, Brian -- Brian Wildsmith's Circus