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82) Circus
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Series
Language
English
Description
Discover Series Books for Babies,Toddlers Step Right Up! It's time to visit the Big Top in the latest book from Xist Publishing's Discover Series. CIRCUS features full,color photos and captions for your child's viewing pleasure. Babies and toddlers will enjoy flipping through the images while learning new words and preschool and older children can use the images as fuel for their imaginations. Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Carnivals are a fantastic way to spend a day. With popcorn, cotton candy, rides, and games, there's something for every person to enjoy. But younger kids might find the crowds, lights, and noise a little overwhelming. This book for beginning readers is the perfect way to prepare a new carnival goer for a super-fun day. Including full-color photographs that closely correlate to the text, it introduces carnival basics in language written especially...
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Language
English
Description
Enjoy the enthralling world of street performance, also known as busking. Packed with insights and inspiration for buskers, their fans, and people who are just curious about the many faces of street performance.
Covers musicians, circus routines (jugglers, fire dancers, tight-wire) and street theater (puppeteers, mime, cosplay, human statues).
Guitarists in the boisterous fish market of the Pacific Northwest; didgeridoo virtuosi on the Melbourne malls;...
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Series
Language
English
Description
97 mystifying tricks done with ordinary objects that can be borrowed from the audience. Make coins appear or disappear; matchsticks jump into the air; classic cups and balls; pierce balloons without bursting them; plus tricks with dice, rubber bands, eggs, safety pins, pens and pencils, more. 185 illustrations.
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Language
English
Description
This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)material outcomes of this experiment is what the author calls "homemade academic circus" - a series of lecture-performances on performance-related academic questions, presented and discussed through circus...
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Series
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.
It provides:
The fundamentals of comedy
History of comedy
Specific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughter
Examples of how those techniques have been used
Thought-provoking questions to help you decide how you might use those techniques
Methods enabling you to connect more fully with your audience.
And...
88) The Clown Show
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Language
English
Description
The clown entertains us with tricks that surprise us, delights and deceives us and makes us wonder what makes the tricks work. Behind the funny clothes, pointy shoes and crooked hat, the clown is a real person who works very hard to bring fun into our lives, even if this is for a brief time. But who is this clown? Is the clown a he or a she, fat or thin, old or young, pink or brown?
This is a story for little children who are just starting to understand...
90) Baby Clown
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
91) Freeks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Gideon Davorin's Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act. Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night. When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they need...
92) The dark island
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 6
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
114 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling sixth installment of Scott Chantler's popular Three Thieves graphic novel series, the separate adventures of twins Dessa and Jared play out simultaneously and seem poised to intersect as the book ends. Dessa, along with Topper and Fisk, has managed a daring landing onto the flying island of Astaroth, where she hopes to find her long-lost brother. Instead, they discover a bizarre world where three children are being held by a mysterious...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
La Nouba originates from the French expression "faire la Nouba," which means "to party, to live it up." La Nouba transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, engaging the imagination from beginning to end. Featuring mesmerizing high wire and flying trapeze, stunning acro-gymnastic performances and other dynamic displays of coordination and strength, La Nouba promises to surprise, excite and mystify.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.
95) Seree's story
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[VOX edition].
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seree loves nothing more than eating sweet, mushy bananas, rolling in squelchy mud and playing with her family in the jungle. But one day, she is captured and put to work in a circus. All she wants is to find her mother, and freedom.
96) Circus Fun
Author
Language
English
Description
Read about the things you can find at the circus! Perfect for 1st grade students, this book teaches these 5 words from Fry's First 100 words list: see, we, will, a, and not. The short sentences and clear images support the text to help with memorization. The rebus pictures and simple text build grade 1 reading comprehension in a format that is appealing to children. Beginning readers will learn the essential sight words and gain confidence as they...
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 4
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Drake remembers his dark past as a young knight in the service of King Roderick. Long-ago intrigues may hold clues that will help Drake capture the three thieves -- and could spell the end of Dessa's quest to find her long-lost twin brother.
98) Dumbo
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
DVD only.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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,...
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Language
English
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Description
"An unlikely-and entirely unforgettable-tale of a most unusual friendship between Flora, an elephant calf stolen from her African home, and David, the circus impresario and magician, who adopts, trains, and ultimately liberates her in a tale freely inspired by actual events"--
100) Arte-sanos
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Language
Français
Description
Arte-sanos vous présente un nouveau monde: celui des artisans latino-américains. Souvent méprisés, ces artistes de rue vivent pourtant de leurs créations. Par opposition au système, ils tentent d'inventer une nouvelle forme de vie remplie d'art et de liberté. Observez-les, découvrez leurs méthodes de travail ainsi que les matériaux utilisés; vous comprendrez alors mieux la dynamique dans laquelle ils s'inscrivent. C'est parti pour un bon...
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