Project Gutenberg 2010-02-24 Public domain in the USA. 54 Cobb, Thomas 1854 1932 The Little Clown Reading ease score: 88.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Little Clown" by Thomas Cobb is a children's novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows a young boy named Jimmy, who embarks on a series of adventures after feeling abandoned due to the lack of a guardian to meet him at the railway station. Ultimately, he runs away and finds himself in a colorful circus world, encountering a variety of characters while seeking to reunite with his elusive family members. The opening portion of the book establishes Jimmy as a nearly eight-year-old boy attending a small school. After his school term ends abruptly due to the illness of his governess, he faces the anxiety of potentially being sent to live with relatives he barely knows. As he anticipates his return home, we learn that he has never met his parents and is unsure of what his future holds. This tension escalates as he finds himself alone at the railway station when no one comes to meet him, leading him to travel to his Aunt Selina's house, setting off a chain of events that make him a reluctant adventurer in an unfamiliar world. The themes of family, belonging, and the innocence of childhood journey are seamlessly woven into his experience, enticing the reader to join him on this quest for connection and identity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction Students -- Juvenile fiction Circus -- Juvenile fiction Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction Clowns -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 135420 135435 2024-10-13T10:15:41.580840 2023-09-14T04:02:02.773982 text/html text/html 133227 2010-02-24T08:30:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 44518 2010-02-24T08:30:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 108890 2024-10-13T10:15:46.861800 application/epub+zip 109110 2024-10-13T10:15:43.594802 application/epub+zip 109110 2024-10-13T10:15:42.343811 application/epub+zip 227084 2024-10-13T10:15:49.253813 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210754 2024-10-13T10:15:46.084806 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 188722 2022-09-14T11:32:05.817108 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 122539 122336 2024-10-13T10:15:41.069831 2023-09-14T04:02:02.399983 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 122429 2010-02-24T08:30:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 42662 2010-02-24T08:30:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20521 2024-10-13T10:15:49.390770 application/rdf+xml 11948 2024-10-13T10:15:42.899804 image/jpeg 3276 2024-10-13T10:15:42.620810 image/jpeg 106027 2024-10-13T10:15:41.593827 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog