Boswell Wilkie Circus times in South Africa, the circus announced that the touring side would stop. Their final performance was on 13 October in Alberton, Gauteng. The circus then moved to Randvaal. The circus continued to perform just for corporate functions and Christmas parties. The below is a post from their website as a last good bye: It is with great sadness that the Wilkie family have to announce that after many years of the Big top standing on the Boswell Wilkie Circus farm in Randvaal, the beloved Big Top, that holds so many precious memories for those young and old, will be
The Circus Surprise to look out at the circus and makes Nick laugh by saying that the lions are kittens and the people were ants. Bina Williams in her review for the School Library Journal said "Fletcher details an occurrence that is bound to happen to just about every kid at one time or another--getting lost in a public place. Vagin's gouache pictures vividly portray the details of a circus that is big enough to be interesting but not so big as to be scary." Publishers Weekly was mixed in their review saying "Fletcher's text is by turns reassuring and practical in tone,