When he goes to a carnival with Sarah and his cousin Percy, Rotten Ralph learns that winning is not everything.

Looking forward to enjoying the numerous rides and food choices at the fair with his friends, Splat the Cat resolves to cheer up an absent Kitten by rallying Spike and Plank to help him find a fun gift for her.

While Robby and his sister Karla are enjoying their trip to the carnival, they encounter a boy in a penned-in area who compels them to break the rules.

On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.

"The tents are leaky. The troupers are weary. The carnival limps into town and sets up for another show. To the public, the carnival means exciting performers. To Nick Coster, those performers are 'mugs and grifters and riffraff - all under one tent.' Nick should know. He puts the show together"--Container.

Bear usually spends his days on the beach, singing and watching birds, but when he leaves to visit a carnival, his dream of flying may just come true.

Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.

In this story, told in the form of a television broadcast, the bears and their cub catch two escaping prisoners who are hiding at the carnival.

Best friends Cornbread and Poppy spend a day at the Carnival playing games, eating snacks, and riding the Ferris wheel.