Flea Circus Summer

Venola Mae #1

by Cheryl Ware

Venola Mae Cutright has spent most of the summer writing letters, and she never gives up, whether she's begging for a job, nitpicking with a friend, or straightening out a flea company. Venola is serious. And when she's serious, she's seriously funny!

Ultra Underwater Flea Circus People P.O. Box 2000, Destin Florida

Dear Flea People's Bosses

Enclosed is a Tupperware bowl of wet black specs. Please have your doctors analyze these in your oratories and see if there is something wrong with my water. I followed your directions to a tee...

Venola Mae Cutright

P.S. I don't need any more magic rocks, but I never did receive the circus tent full of tiny elephant and bears and giraffes that the underwater fleas are riding in your advertisement.

Genres: Childrens

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1996

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wasn't impressed, and I really wanted to be since this is a local author and I had planned on sharing this book with my granddaughter once I had read it. It's basically letters that the main character, Venola Mae Cutright, writes to others. I will give it points for being a quick and easy read and humorous. However, some of the subject matter didn't seem appropiate for young readers...being robbed at gunpoint in a church, growing marijuana (which turned out to really be tomato plants, so some redeption there) and what happens to dead bodies at the funeral home. (like death isn't upsetting enough to a child, you want them thinking about draining blood, etc?!) Cheryl Ware has written other children's books, so I think at some point I will give her another chance, but this one I will not be passing on to my granddaughter.

[Laurel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute funny children's book

[Jeannie Scheirman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I met this author one summer and bought the book. It is such a realistic story of a young girl and her summer. Quite cute and funny.

[August Neeley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when I was 10 and I loved it. I remembered it out of the blue a few months ago and managed to find a secondhand copy. 15 years later, and it holds up, I still love this book.