A circus is most commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts.

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magazine article: "A good circus has always built its reputation on its ability to amaze and entertain and what could be more amazing than a flea circus? But does such a thing really exist and can fleas really be taught to perform circus tricks?" Read article

word game: Circus. Match the names of different performers, animals and things in the circus with pictures of these. Play game (1) and game (2)

story: The Great Leonino and Ringo the Clown The rivalry and jealousy between two circus performers makes one of them plot against the other. However, his plan goes terribly wrong. Read story

poem: Circus. This poem by Vine McCasland provides a different, very interesting view of the circus as seen from the audience. Read poem

cartoon: "How's life?" "Oh, up and ..." See cartoon

trivia: Wordplay: "Somebody was running a flea circus, but a dog came and stole the show" is a pun. See more circus trivia

links: Wikipedia: circus See more links

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