As a boy, Alexander ?Sandy? Calder was always fiddling with odds and
ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an
artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy
made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire
circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a
brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.
This is the story of Sandy's Circus, as told by Tanya Lee Stone with
Boris Kulikov's spectacular and innovative illustrations. Calder's
original circus is on permanent display at the Whitney Museum in New
York City.