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Author
Series
Magic ponies volume 7
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Jessie Starkling is really worried when no one turns up to her family's circus by the sea. But when lovable spotted pony Comet comes ashore, Jessie's circus looks like it might turn out to be a real splash!
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Your favorite characters are back in their most hilarious adventure yet! Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are on the run through Europe in this wildly-entertaining and outrageous comedy critic's call 'charming and very funny'! With the fame-loving King Julian and take-charge Penguins, the whole crew joins the circus to escape Captain Dubois of Animal Control.
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 5
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1959
Physical Desc
56 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
Pepito, son of the Spanish Ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering friends until they again find Miss Clavel.
Publisher
Candlewick Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Grandpa Pig is busy setting up a big tent in the backyard for Granny Pig?s garden party, but Peppa thinks it looks more like a circus tent. What could be better than to put on a circus show during the party? Danny Dog can be the strong man, Suzy Sheep the juggler, and George can wow the crowd as one of the cyclists. And it?s Peppa?s job to make sure the amazing feats go according to plan ? she?s the ringmaster, of course!
6) Dumbo
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere, who recruits the Dumbo for his newest entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
368 pages
Description
Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called "human wonders." When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated....
Author
Series
Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 7
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Formats
Description
Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, wants to perform his high-wire act in the circus.
11) Shadows and fog
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kleinman, a cowardly clerk recruited to help find a murderer, meets a woman and her boyfriend, a clown, running away from the circus. Kleinman decides to help them escape, abandoning the search for the murderer, but his choice only gets them all involved.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (359 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A day at the races (1937): A vet posing as a doctor, a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race horse ; A night in Casablanca (1946): It's the Nazis vs. the Brothers when the trio foils Axis criminal activity at a hotel swirling in intrigue and whirling with nonstop nonsense.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 blu-rays (268 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The friendship between a Central Park Zoo lion and zebra is tested when Marty the zebra's longing to explore ultimately leaves them stranded on the savage shores of Madagascar; follows the Central Park Zoo animals as they leave Madagascar to become stranded in the middle of Africa; the Central Park Zoo animals find their attempt to get home threatened by Animal Control, so they disguise themselves as members of a traveling circus.
14) Nightmare alley
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he's going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder--a world where women weave illusions of magnificent beasts, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only world Cecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Virginia, 2004: Lara Barnes is on top of the world, but when her...
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Your favorite characters are back in their most hilarious adventure yet! Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are on the run through Europe in this wildly entertaining and outrageous comedy critics call 'charming and very funny!' With the fame-loving King Julian and take-charge Penguins, the whole crew joins the circus to escape Captain Dubois of Animal Control.
19) La vie en rose
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel...
Author
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep? When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
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