Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Keywords: clown
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0805059334
ISBN-13: 9780805059335
A discarded yet irrepressible toy clown goes on a quest through the city to find a home for himself and his family of unwanted stuffed animals. A "New York Times" Best Illustrated Book. Full color.
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: god, clown
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1978-09-06
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0156181924
ISBN-13: 9780156181921
In this retelling of the old French legend, a juggler offers to the Christ Child the only Christmas gift he has. The full-color pictures with subtle tonal modulations are an integral part of the design of the lumious pages full of movement and vitality. The Italianate aspects of the setting are beautifully realized.--The Horn Book
Author: Barbara Corcoran
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: clown
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1975-08
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 068930465X
ISBN-13: 9780689304651
A sixteen-year-old American girl becomes involved with a circus clown in Moscow who is sought by the KGB.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, clown, shalimar
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679783482
ISBN-13: 9780679783480
Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legendtheyre all blended here magnificently.The Washington Post Book WorldThis is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, Americas counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown; Maxs illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, Fran
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Keywords: clown, shalimar
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $20.22
ISBN-10: 0676977553
ISBN-13: 9780676977554
Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story.Max Ophuls memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief but it is much more.Ophuls is a giant, an architect of the modern worl
Author: Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: clown, class
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1988-08-01
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 0590418211
ISBN-13: 9780590418218
"Once again Hurwitz exhibits her talent for creating characters who talk, act, and think just like real kids. Realistic dialogue . . . and commonplace situations that sparkle with humor combine to make this a fine choice."--School Library Journal.
Author: Jean Genet
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: show, clown, blacks
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802150284
ISBN-13: 9780802150288
