Reminiscent of The Lion and the Bird - still my favorite picture-book this side of the millennium - the tale follows the accidental, unlikely friendship that develops between a kindly old farmer and a child-clown after the little boy falls out of the circus train amid the farmer’s patch of the prairie. Here comes a woefully belated, wonderfully apt addition to this year’s best children’s books: The Farmer and the Clown ( public library) - a sweet, immeasurably warm wordless story by author and illustrator Marla Frazee. “One never notices what has been done,” Marie Curie wrote in a letter to her brother upon receiving her second graduate degree, “one can only see what remains to be done.” She could have easily been talking about the endless world of discovery that is children’s literature.
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