There are many boys in the world all slightly different from one another & most of them are referred to by names. These are often John or Jack or Desmond but sometimes they are James or Philip or Simon. Once & once only there was a boy whose name was Fizzlebert. Fizzlebert Stump lives in a travelling circus. But although he gets to hang around with acrobats play the fool with clowns & put his head in a lions mouth every night hes the only kid there
- & hes bored. But then Fizz decides to join a library & life suddenly gets a lot more exciting when a simple library card application leads to him being kidnapped by a pair of crazed pensioners! Will he ever see the circus again?