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Melanie Matthews.
"Oohs and aahs. / Applause! Applause!" Smart, taut, simple rhymes usher readers from the circus train to the big top and back to their ride to the next venue. The rhymes and razzle-dazzle illustrations could succeed without the train-story framing device, but then readers would miss seeing the behind-the-scenes stars: the workers who do the heavy lifting.