Circus Reading List

Appaloosa Zebra: A Horse Lover's Alphabet, Jessie Haas, Margot Apple (Illustrator), 2002

Ballet of the Elephants, Leda Schubert, Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator), 2006

Be A Clown: Techniques from a Real Clown (Quick Starts for Kids!), Ron Burgess, Heather Barberie (Illustrator), 2001

The Busy World of Richard Scarry: Lowly Worm Joins the Circus, Richard Scarry, Gail Herman (Illustrator), 2004

Cats That Roar, Kimberly Weinberger, Turi MacCombie (Illustrator), 2002

The Circus Alphabet, Linda Bronson, 2001

Circus, Roxie Munro, 2007

Circus Family Dog, Andrew Clements, Sue Truesdell (Illustrator), 2000

Circus Fun, Mararet Hillert, Elaine Raphael (Illustrator), 1975

Clifford at the Circus, Norman Bridwell, 1985

Emeline at the Circus, Marjorie Priceman, 2001

A Field Full of Horses (with audio), Peter Hansard, Kenneth Lilly (Illustrator), 2008

The Greatest Show On Earth, John Prater, 1997

How The Camel Got Its Hump, Justine & Ron Fontes, Keiko Motoyama (Illustrator), 2001

How The Zebra Got its Stripes, Justine & Ron Fontes, Peter Grosshauser (Illustrator), 2002

If I Ran The Circus, Dr. Seuss, 1956

Jumbo, Rhoda Blumberg, Jonathan Hunt (Illustrator), 1992

Last Night I Dreamed a Circus, Maya Gottfried, Robert Rahway Zakanitch (Illustrator), 2003

Mirette on the Highwire, Emily Arnold McCully, 1997

Miss Bindrgarten Plans a Circus with Kindergarten, Joseph Slate, Ashley Wolff (Illustrator), 2002

Morris and Boris at the Circus, Bernard Wiseman, 1990

My Mother's Secret Life, Rebecca Emberley, 1998

Oliver, Syd Hoff, 2000

Olivia Saves the Circus, Ian Falconer, 2001

Peter Spier's Circus, Peter Spiers, 1995

Pippi Goes to the Circus, Astrid Lindgren, Michael Chesworth (Illustrator), 2000

The Saggy Baggy Elephant, K. & B. Jackson, Gustaf Tenggren (Illustrator), 2003

Starring Mirette and Bellini, Emily Arnold McCully, 2000

The Circus, Lindsey Michael Miller, Phillip Griswold (Illustrator), 2005

The Circus is Coming, Hilary Knight, 2007

The World's Greatest Elephant, Ralph Hefner, Ted Lewin (Illustrator), 2006

To The Big Top, Jill Esbaum, David Gordon (Illustrator), 2008

Twenty-One Elephants, Phil Bildner, LeUyen Pham (Illustrator), 2004

Who Put the B in Ballyhoo?, Carlyn Beccia, 2007

Yellow Elephant, Julie Larios, Julie Paschkis (Illustrator), 2006

You See a Circus, I See…., Mike Downs, Anik McGrory (Illustrator), 2005

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