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Circus Genre
Books in the Circus genre:
Hard Times for These Times (1854)
The utilitarian Mr. Gradgrind manages to destroy his children’s happiness. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
None
Toby Tyler (1881)
Toby runs away to join the circus. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Otis
Illustrator(s):
William Allen Rogers
The Circus and All About It (1909)
The circus in all its glory.
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Doctor Dolittle’s Circus (1924)
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Little Girl Blue (1926)
When Winkie’s mother is reported to have died, she is expelled from her boarding school and enters the inferno of the orphanage system.
Author(s):
Beth A. Retner
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Tuftoo the Clown (1928)
Tuftoo is a marionette who is found by two children, who end up joining the puppet show themselves.
Author(s):
Howard R. Garis
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Fairy Caravan (1929)
A young guinea pig runs away and joins the circus.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Beatrix Potter
Fun ’o the Fair (1929)
This booklet about the showman Lord George Sanger was adapted from an essay which introduced Seventy Years a Showman by the said Lord George.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Roberta F. C. Waudby
Tooky: The Story of a Seal Who Joined the Circus (1931)
Another look at the life of a seal in the circus.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Powder: The Story of a Colt, a Duchess and the Circus (1933)
Powder the young colt does not want to be the overweight duchess’ riding horse and runs away with the circus.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Lila Stanley
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
A Scotch Circus: The Story of Tammas Who Rode the Dragon (1934)
A story about a circus.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Tom Powers
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Story of Freginald (1936)
Freginald joins the Boomschmidt Circus and meets fellow poet Freddy the pig. Together they solve a mystery and save the Circus.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Ki-Ki a Circus Trouper (1937)
Ki-Ki was a cunning dog who was adopted by a circus family and later became a star performer; and finally a real hero to the entire circus troupe.
Author(s):
Edith Janice Craine
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Trixie: Stories of the Circus (1937)
Trixie the orangutan and her traveling life in the circus. Trixie always traveled with the people of the circus, not the animals--with her own berth on the train, and a room of her own in the hotel!
Author(s):
Bob Barton
G. Ernest Thomas
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Circus is Coming (1938)
Threatened with life in separate orphanages when their aunt dies, Peter and Santa run away from home to join their unknown uncle who is a circus clown.
Author(s):
Noel Streatfeild
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
Cricket: The Story of a Little Circus Pony (1938)
The story of a little pony who performs in the circus.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Topsy Turvy Circus (1940)
When the circus gets in a jam, the giraffe comes through.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely