Her second book, Tumble & Blue, was received with widespread critical acclaim.Įven though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician more powerful than any other-the Man Who Bends Light. The Bootlace Magician is the sequel to her first novel, Circus Mirandus, which was a New York Times bestseller and a New York Times Notable Children's Book. She earned her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Then there is the Man Who Bends Light who, one character quips, should be called the "Man Who Bends Minds." The Circus Mirandus is like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory - a magical literary place that young readers will never forget.Cassie Beasley is from rural Georgia, where, when she's not writing, she helps out on the family pecan farm. There is the Amazing Amazonian Bird Woman who flies around the tent robed in pure white feathers amid a flock of colorful birds from around the world. There are "candies that fizz and pop," drinks that make you sing opera for an hour and gummy candies that light up in your mouth when you chew them. Once inside, he sees shows, people and creatures, from a French vulture who "could tell the future by plucking its own feathers," to flocks of fairies that flit around, occasionally taking the shape of butterflies. This fish grants him a rare week-long pass. Ephraim hands over a fish that was caught in his boot when he was trying to walk across the ocean to reach his father.
These can be anything and the ticket can be for any amount of time. Beasley's circus is dedicated to keeping magic alive by keeping the belief in magic alive in the children who visit the Circus Mirandus, which has been magnificent since 500 B.C.īeasley's circus is magical and magnificent, starting with Geoffrey, the ticket taker who works the door. In fact, she was surprised the first time someone asked her if her circus story was scary, Circus Mirandus being so far from the traditional tropes. The town is suddenly a temporary home to masked strangers who will perform peculiar feats for a few nights and then depart." This describes perfectly Bradbury's carnival, but not Beasley's. Children sneak out of their houses to see the show. It can be a transient and turbulent beast that arrives in an otherwise stagnant environment and starts to change things around. Beasley says that a circus can "contain so much potential creepiness. Vibrant and exciting on the outside, literary circuses are often dark and dangerous on the inside. In an interview with Betsy Bird at School Library Journal, Beasley discusses the tropes surrounding the use of circuses and carnivals in literature, movies and television.
Intertwined with this are visits to the circus itself.
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