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Circus Stories

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Paddington Bear at the Circus

Michael Bond

A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears

Jules Feiffer

Professor Renoir's Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights

Randall Platt

Carnival at Candlelight

Mary Pope Osborne

The Bootlace Magician

Cassie Beasley

Step Into the Spotlight!: a Branches Book (the Amazing Stardust Friends #1)

Heather Alexander

Madeline and the Gypsies

Ludwig Bemelmans

Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm

Jerdine Nolen

Sidewalk Circus

Paul Fleischman

We Are All His Creatures: Tales of P. T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman

Deborah Noyes

The Magician's Elephant

Kate DiCamillo

Smoke and Mirrors

K. D. Halbrook

The Great Zapfino

Mac Barnett

Claude at the Circus

Alex T. Smith

Doctor Dolittle's Circus

Hugh Lofting