Weekend Reading: The Circus Ship
A top reading pick. We love it!
ADDED January 16, 2010
We suggest good books here pretty frequently. But today we would like to announce: Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen might just be our top pick of all time! It’s certainly our favorite book of 2010. Yes, yes, it’s still early in the new year — I know — but we just love this book!
When my kids and I finished reading Circus Ship for the first time, they demanded that we start over and read it again immediately. All in all, we probably spent an hour with this book during our first reading.
Here’s the story: a ship carrying animals from a circus has a mishap at sea . . . and sinks. The animals swim to a nearby island, whose residents are quite shocked at the sight of the exotic creatures. The humans are also a bit annoyed at the varieties of trouble that the animals get into.
However, the animals quickly show everyone that they are good-hearted and gregarious. A bond is formed. When the greedy and jerky circus owner arrives on the island to collect the animals . . . well, we’re not going to give away any surprises . You’ve got to get this book and read it yourselves!
(Suffice to say, there are some twists, there are some turns, and everything turns out quite nicely!)
This book has it all: an intriguing story, insanely beautiful art, and wonderful rhyming words. My kids pored over the pages for minutes on end, looking for new (and frequently amusing) details. Again without giving anything away, one page of hidden details is also very important to the story. (The page in question is my kids’ absolute favorite.)
Circus Ship gave my boys and me a ton of fun and joy. It’s like one of those rare movies that you enjoy so much that you don’t want it to end. My family checked this book out from the library, but will be ordering it from Amazon.com. We hope you check it out for yourselves and enjoy it, too!
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