Sirkus yang identik dengan 'penyiksaan terhadap hewan', dalam cerita ini justru dikisahkan sebagai tempat di mana para pecinta hewan berada. Due to certain circumstances, Jimmy finds the pachyderm roaming the village streets under a sky full of thunder and lightening.

Soon he befriends a little girl in the circus which leads him to become a common sight amongst the circus folk.Blue cloth covered boards clean, light wear to corners and spine ends, spine and head of rear board sunned, foxing to endpapers, ink inscription to fep, colour frontispiece entitled, 'Do your best, Lucky,' said Jimmy, 'Do your best! Their day is not finished though because whilst all other children in the village are sleeping peacefully in their beds, the two circus kids get up to take the dogs for a walk. Complete acceptance of an outsider wandering around amongst the caravans and helping out with the animals is not valid until Mr. The information on this site is aimed primarily at parents, educators, reviewers and retailers and you must be over the age of 13 to subscribe to our newsletter.

Perhaps the story is more developed in later volumes, but for now most of the characters--particularly the adults--are two-dimensional and the story is very superficial.Mr Galliano's Circus was one of my regular story time books that I absolutely adored and my mum nailed with her narration. There are some positive moral lessons interwoven in the book - about being kind, and not letting obstacles get in the way, and so on.

Some of the skills he teaches his dog, such as walking on its hind legs and carrying a flag or parasol at the same time, are probably impossible since dogs don't have opposable thumbs, but hey, it's fiction. In the weekend, Jimmy visits the circus camp for a whole day at the invitation of his young friend, Lotta. Galliano's Circus (Galliano's Circus 1) (September 1938) 3/6 (8½ X 6½) (218 pages) Red cloth boards and title on spine in black with a dustwrapper (ill. Even as an adult reader, while I grow very fond of the main characters, I still can't help but feel envious of them.Galliano himself is in a carriage and he looks terribly smart with his curly moustache and top hat which he doffs when bowing to the crowds lining the road. Gender roles were more firmly defined then and racial undertones are there in the choice of names for two of the dogs in the story. He wanders around amongst the caravans and despite being shouted at by one or other of the circus-folk and warned off at one stage by Mr. Third edition hard back binding in publisher's original turquoise cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered maroon back and front.

Jimmy even ends up riding on the elephant's head and taking him down to the stream every day for a drink. The circus opens and Jimmy eagerly helps with the preparations and hands out props to the performers as they go on. I was delighted to find a three-in-one Kindle edition (Mr Galliano's Circus, Hurrah for the Circus and Circus Days Again) of the series, as well as the Audible version. Blyton's ability to tap into the secret world of childhood dreams and wish fulfilment was extraordinary.

As it happens, there is because her own father, Laddo, who has been performing tricks on horses far longer than his daughter, enters wearing a tight blue shining suit with glittering stars sewn all over it.