The great and only Barnum : the tremendous, stupendous life of showman P.T. Barnum
(2009)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/BIOGRAPHY/791.3/BARNUM,P/FLE

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Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Biographies Y/BIOGRAPHY/791.3/BARNUM,P/FLE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2009]
©2009
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

151 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780375945977 (reinforced), 0375945970 (reinforced), 9780375841972 (hardcover), 0375841970 (hardcover), 0375841970
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"I am a showman" -- That Barnum boy -- The apprentice showman -- A visit to the American Museum -- Humbug! -- A miniature man and a nightingale -- The man behind the curtain -- Endings and beginnings -- Circus man -- Come to the circus -- The egress

Biography of P.T. Barnum, showman and founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Readers can visit Barnum's American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 in. tall) and his tinier bride (32 in.); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum's legacy

980

Ages 8-12

980L

A Junior Library Guild selection

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