This children’s picture book was always hanging around our vacation home, and in the mid-fifties it looked old, so I guess it was from the late thirties or forties. Definitely not after mid-fifties. It was a book about a balloon ringmaster who blew on his toe and inflated himself and then I believe he inflated the rest of the circus. It had some color in the pictures, I think, not many pages, hardbound. The ringmaster was round body, round head as you can imagine. Any ideas?
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I think I may have it. It sounds like “The Rubber Circus” from a story collection called “Good Stories.” I can’t see an author, but the whole book is online on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbmGuChfj8
Hope this helps.
Dear Sara, Yes!!! Thank you, thank you!!! This is exactly it! So nice to see the pictures again! Mary Dupen
You’re welcome. 🙂
Thank you! This has been bothering me for some time. Now I wonder what else was in “Good Stories”.