Book Description
The story of a little boy who really does run away to join the merriment and miseries of circus life.
Author : James Otis
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Boys
ISBN :
The story of a little boy who really does run away to join the merriment and miseries of circus life.
Author : James Otis
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Circus
ISBN :
The story of a little boy who really does run away to join the merriment and miseries of circus life.
Author : James Otis
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Boys
ISBN :
The story of a little boy who really does run away to join the merriment and miseries of circus life.
Author : James Otis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Stan Berenstain
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375980857
Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Brother and Sister think Mama and Papa are too bossy, so the Bear family decides to switch places so they can see what life is like through each other’s eyes. This beloved story is a perfect way to teach children about empathy and appreciating their family.
Author : James Otis
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Circus
ISBN :
The story of a little boy who really does run away to join the merriment and miseries of circus life.
Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545265568
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
Author : James Otis
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2012-03-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781452888859
This is a beautiful new illustrated edition of James Otis's classic take of a boy who runs away to join the circus.This book is a classic among American boys and girls who dreamed of running away to join the circus and remained popular for generations. Disney honored it with a film version, Toby Tyler, starring Kevin Corcoran in 1960. It was James Otis Kaler's first book and also his best known and most successful.Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new employer is a cruel taskmaster. The difference between the romance of the circus from the outside and the reality as seen from the inside is graphically depicted. Toby's friend, Mr. Stubbs the chimpanzee, reinforces the consequences of what happens when one follows one's natural instincts rather than one's intellect and conscience, a central theme of the novel.Toby Tyler is a "bad boy" novel, meant to teach a lesson what happens to boys who do bad things; other examples include George W. Peck's Peck's Bad Boy (1883), Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), and Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). As with Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), also about a conscience-stricken escaped and wandering orphan boy (written following the success of Toby Tyler), most readers don't remember Toby Tyler for its wholesome message, but as a romantic story of running away to the circus and adventures on the road.The book was influential with some famous "bad boys". A young Carl Sandburg thought Toby Tyler one of his favorite books (even better than Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). Harlan Ellison credits it as influencing his decision to run off with the circus. William S. Burroughs wrote of it in his journals.The original book contains 30 pen and ink drawings by W. A. Rogers (1854-1931). A sequel, Mr. Stubb's Brother, was published in 1883.
Author : Stephen Vincent Brennan
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Circus
ISBN : 9781592287406
A collection of stories from the earliest circus to the most modern. Author Stephen Vincent Brennan has worked as a circus clown, book editor, teacher, cabaret artist, actor, director, sheepherder and playwright. He is the editor of Classic Adventure Stories, Classic Exploration Stories, The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told, and Classic American Hero Stories. He is now an actor and director with the Theater Wing of the Kaufman Center in New York City.
Author : James Otis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2023-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368366874
Reproduction of the original.