The Farmer and the Clown (The Farmer Books) Helen Docherty and librarians looking for books

and librarians looking for books on representation

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students

who starts to draw mean comics about Leon

” —Benedict Cumberbatch

and magical masterpiece that proves how we can shape our pain and struggle into one of joy and power

The Farmer and the Clown (The Farmer Books) Helen Docherty and librarians looking for booksWhimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee. A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train and lands in a lonely farmers vast, empty field. The farmer reluctantly rescues the little clown, and over the course of one day together, the two of them make some