Central Kansas Library System

As the circus train rolls into town, excited children and their parents get in line for their chance to experience the Big Top. Clowns paint faces and people scurry to their seats. Then the show begins, wrapping readers in all the wonders of the circus. Dancing elephants, flipping trapeze artists, and pie-throwing clowns.

"Magnolia returns to explain the many downsides to bringing a circus to a local library"--

Full page color illustrations from the 1941 Disney animated motion picture tell the story of Dumbo, a baby elephant with oversized ears who is ridiculed by all the circus animals and finally befriended by a mouse. Dumbo becomes the world's only flying elephant.

A picture book about Oop, a gorilla, who is second banana to The Amazing Mr. Bubbles, a monkey, until one day, Mr. Bubbles finds himself in trouble and Oop has to save the day.

To escape a burning building, Zapfino must confront the fears that forced him out of the circus.

Scooby and the gang investigate when reports arise of a werewolf stealing jewels from the visiting circus.

"Jane the dog doesn't have a unique talent in the circus like the rest of her family, until the ringmaster discovers what is truly special about her"--Provided by publisher.

In the Netherlands in 1855, May, a young member of a circus family who is not permitted to perform because of a twisted foot, bonds with a local Friesian farm horse that she names Luna, and together the two perform a heroic act that changes their futures for the better. Includes facts about Friesian horses.