Their career spanned much of the 1900s and is being told in the book "In the Shadow of the Big Top: The Life of Ringling's Unlikely Circus Savior". Used with permission from Illinois State ...

This approach may strike some as, well, a stretch, but there is a long history of using art and drama to teach the Bible. In 1995, Peter Pitzele wrote his book “Our Father’s Wells,” a ...

CAT MAN (310 pp.)—Edward Hoagland—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75).Reading this novel about circus life is a little like lifting a splendid rug and finding that unspeakable things have been swept ...

Can any hotly-awaited book really live up to its hype? Consider “The Night Circus,’’ a first novel by Massachusetts native Erin Morgenstern, which started generating the kind of buzz that ...

Over 300 route books of early American circuses are being digitized by Illinois State University, Circus World, and the Ringling Museum of Art.

Phoenix Youth Circus Arts teaches kids stilt-walking, aerial silks and clowning. Jens Larson says its a continuation of his ...

Spell books, dragons, mermaids, fairies and a magic circus all take on new life in the pages of these five enchanting tales hitting shelves in May and June. Accessibility links.