Books

=Books= If you enjoyed reading this book about P.T. Barnum, you may want to check out these books as well! Fiction
 * For STUDENTS**:
 * Alcock, Vivien -- Travelers By Night (grades 6-8)
 * Cross, Gillian -- Great American Elephant Chase (ages 9-12)
 * Harvey, Dean -- The Secret Elephant of Harlan Kooter (grades 3-5)
 * Hughes, Dean -- Jelly's Circus (grades 4-6)
 * Johnson, Lois -- The Runaway Clown (grade level 5 and up)
 * Smucker, Barbara -- Incredible Jumbo: A Novel (grades 4-6)
 * Prince, April Jones -- Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing (ages 5 and up)

Non-Fiction
 * Circus Animals--Judith Janda Presnall (Reading level 6.7)
 * Circus: An Album--Linda Granfield (Reading level 7.3)
 * Contortionists and Cannons: An Acrobatic Look at the Circus --Marc Tyler Nobleman (Reading Level 5.4)


 * For TEACHERS:**
 * The books used in writing //The Great and Only Barnum://**

//The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself//. New York: Redfield, 1855.

//Struggles and Triumphs; or Forty Years’ Recollections of P.T. Barnum.// Hartford, CT: J.B. Burr, 1869.

//Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum.// Edited and with an introduction by A.H. Saxon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

//The Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles of the world: The Story of Their Capture.// Chicago: The Werner Company, 1896. Published five years after Barnum's death, this rollicking, adventure-filled book details the ways in which Barnum gathered animals from every corner of the world.

//The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages.// New York: Carleton, 1865.

//Funny Stories Told by Phineas T. Barnum.// New York and London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890.


 * Other biographies about P.T. Barnum the book referenced:**

Harris, Neil. //Humbug: The Art of P.T. Barnum.// Boston: Little, brown and Company, 1973.

Kumhardt, Philip B. //P.T. Barnum: America’s Greatest Showman.// New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Saxon, A. H. //P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man.// New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.


 * Other related books of interest:**

Durant, John and Alice. //Pictorial History of the American Circus.// New York: A.S. Barnes, 1957.

Thumb, Mrs. Tom. //The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (Some of My Life Experiences).// Edited and with an introduction by A.H. Saxon. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979.