Reviews

The History of Clowns for Beginners by Joe Lee

laurasauras's review against another edition

3.0

This book reminded me of Horrible Histories books that I read while growing up, and you can't fault that, but it actually wasn't *that much* about clowns, which was disappointing. Half the book at least is about trickster gods and mythology that inspire the sort of archetype behind clowns, and the real historical/cultural instances of jesters/clowns were often reduced to only a couple of sentences, and I would have loved to hear more about them.

tonsillitis's review

I can't read that font, the writing style and story telling was not clear, the dots were not connected.