Circus: Under the Big Top
Each week we feature crafts from seasonal themes as well as selected themes that we think our readers like you would enjoy and find useful. If you are a parent or teacher who loves to integrate art and other activities with literacy and reading development, you and your little ones would enjoy making our crafts with these great selection of children's books.
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Circus-Themed Reading List
Our Top Picks
Baby-Preschool (Baby-Age 3)
- All Aboard the Circus McGurkus (Dr. Seuss Nursery Collection)
by Dr. Seuss
- Circus McGurkus 1, 2, 3! (Dr. Seuss Nursery Collection)
by Dr. Seuss
- Harold's Circus
by Crockett Johnson
- Spot Goes to the Circus
by Eric Hill
- The Secret Circus
by Johanna Wright
Preschool-Grade 2 (Ages 4-8)
- Ballet of the Elephants
by Leda Schubert
- Bearymore (Picture Puffin books)
by Don Freeman
- Circus
by Lois Ehlert
- If I Ran the Circus
by Dr. Seuss
- Last Night I Dreamed a Circus
by Maya Gottfried
- Library Lion
by Michelle Knudsen
- Mirette on the High Wire
by Emily Arnold McCully
- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
by Ashley Wolff
- Murphy Dog at the Circus
by Christian Sidle
- Olivia Saves the Circus
by Ian Falconer
- Peter Spier's Circus
by Peter Spier
- Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder
by Tanya Lee Stone
- Sidewalk Circus
by Paul Fleischman
- Song of the Circus
by Lois Duncan
- The Circus is Coming
by Hilary Knight
- The Circus Ship
by Chris Van Dusen
- The Man Who Walked Between The Towers
by Mordicai Gerstein
- Tightrope Poppy the High-Wire Pig
by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
- Tree-Ring Circus
by Adam Rex
- Where's Pup?
by Dayle Ann Dodds
- Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo?
by Carlyn Beccia
- You See a Circus, I See...
by Mike Downs
Grade 3-6 (Age 9-12)
- Saving Lilly
by Peg Kehret
- The Floating Circus
by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
- The Magician's Elephant
by Kate DiCamillo
- The Man Who Walked Between The Towers
by Mordicai Gerstein
