When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.

To work off a family debt, ten-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.

Oliver looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.

A boy has fun at the circus looking into mirrors that make him look big, thin, small, fat, and even upside down!

A learn-to-read story about a circus that gets on a train.

When Frieda and Boffo Clown have a baby, the entire circus is over the moon. But there is one problem: Baby Clown won't stop crying.

Why did Bill have to bring the babyish Gustavus with them on holiday? Jack knows hell only be trouble... But when Gustavus is kidnapped, along with Philip, Dinah and Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot bravely set out to rescue them, leading them to a faraway land and the discovery of a plot to kill the King!

"Eleven-year-old Mattie Marvelwood comes from a family of traveling performers who have a deep secret. The acts they perform are not just acts -- their powers are real. In all their wanderings, the Marvelwoods have never met performers with gifts like theirs -- until they join Master Morogh's Circus of Wonders! But it seems that Master Morogh's true talent is stealing the gifts of others. When he steals Mattie's brother's vanishing ability, the family...