Those who are taken with the theme might also want to examine Etienne Delessert's Night Circus. I would recommend this one to fans of the artist, and of wordless picture-books, as well as to children who dream of having nighttime adventures. The visuals are more than capable of carrying the story, and the whole book has a dream-like quality that is quite fitting, given the subject matter. The fourth picture-book that I have read from Collington, and the third that is wordless, following upon On Christmas Eve and The Tooth Fairy, The Midnight Circus has the same beautiful, light-infused illustrations I have come to expect from this artist. The next day the boy awakens and finds that the kind shopkeeper has restored the horse to his proper place. That night he dreams (or does he?) that the horse carries him to a midnight circus, where he and his equine friend become stars. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.A young boy is deeply distraught when the play horse that stands outside of shop next door to his apartment building is taken down and replaced with a play rocket in this wordless picture-book from British artist Peter Collington. In these sixteen brilliantly unnerving tales and poems, Central Park becomes a carnival where you canbut probably shouldn’ttransform into a wild beast. The dark imaginings of fantasy icon Jane Yolen are not for the faint of heart. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Welcome to the Midnight Circusand watch your step. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love-a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. It is called Le Cirque des R ves, and it is only open at night.īut behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway-a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements.

It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

The midnight circus book