This itsy-bitsy, mini, tiny coloring book (the perfect size for Esme) presents some of the pictures and text from "Esme Dooley and the Kirkkomaki Circus." The coloring book is 6 x 9 inches and has 45 black-and-white images for your inner artist to bring to life.

"A dead person?" asks eleven-year-old Esme. How intriguing She has just learned that she is going on a journey in search of a dead person. Was she going to a cemetery? Or maybe to a funeral?

By train, by gypsy wagon, and even by ostrich, Esme takes a summer journey. She and her grandmother and her cousin Tommy meet up with a circus that is going through harrowing times, for someone is pulling wicked shenanigans Caught in the conundrum, Esme and Tommy eagerly don their sleuth's hats to try to solve the mystery. When tragedy strikes, they learn the importance of friendship, and they...