Circus: Over 50 flaps plus seek-and-find!

Features

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 24 pages
• Published by: Chronicle Books September 28, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0811852091
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0811852098
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1–Like Munro's Doors (Chronicle, 2003), Circus features a popular combination: lift-the-flaps and seek-and-find. The book begins with a group of clowns in their dressing room getting ready to entertain the crowd and ends with all the performers marching around the three rings that make up the arena. Children will enjoy lifting the flaps to view bright, colored-ink pictures of trapeze artists, acrobats, horseback riders, and performing animals doing their thing. Gatefolds, layered lift-the-flaps, and flaps that fold out more than once to indicate movement will keep little hands busy. Even the endpapers lift, like the entrance to the Big Top. Clues written in rhyming verse ask readers to find items in the illustrations: Look for/a horn,/sunglasses,/a cowboy hat;/an umbrella,/Fred the Dog,/and Max the Cat. The dog and cat are in all of the picture puzzles, and the objects to be discovered are not difficult to locate. The background on most spreads is a soft blue-gray with the center a pale cream, as if created by a spotlight focused on the acts. More than 50 flaps make this title a challenge for libraries, but the pages are sturdy.–Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI
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Kirkus, October 15, 2006
A winning concept expertly executed; could become a young child's favorite bookcolorful surprises.

Reader Reviews
My kids love to seek and find the circus items so much that they are constantly pulling at the flaps and pages -- and have ripped more than one in their excitement. (They are ages 3 and 5.) The pictures are detailed yet fun and friendly. The circus items and friends to find are cute and cleverly named. The combo of search and find, lifting flaps, and a circus theme is literally irresistable to my kids, and I would think to most kids. I highly recommend this book!