Circus Play

by Anne Laurel Carter

It's not easy always being upstaged by Mom's trapeze act, which she performs right in the living room. When Dan, Nisha and little Stuie come to visit, they want to watch Mom, not TV. Then they find the Circus Costume Box and the circus takes over completely. To make matters worse, they won't even play Circus correctly. A bullfight works its way in, a safari, and a rocket ship. "A circus doesn't have safaris, " cries the young host, to no avail. Will he get his friends onto the couch in front of the television or will the circus finally work its magic on him too?Circus Play was born when author Anne Carter visited a friend who was a member of a female circus troupe and found that she had a trapeze hanging from her living room ceiling. In that home, as in Anne's, rich opportunities for play invited children into glorious fantasy worlds, worlds that Anne explores in her stories.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2002

About the author

Anne Laurel Carter has been a waitress, baker, store clerk, fruit picker and milked cows. Her all-time favourite job was being a school librarian. She often writes about experiences she, her siblings, her friends, her four children, even complete strangers had, or she imagines they had, and then embellishes. Liberally. She divides her year, writing and teaching, between Toronto and Nova Scotia.