An acrobat loses his nerve and gets a regular job, but a moment comes when he must perform. Mac Barnett and illustrator Marla Frazee talk about their children's book "The Great Zapfino." That's Mac ...

The Great Zapfino is a circus performer whose act is called "The Leap For Life." When the book opens, he's climbing up a ladder, preparing to jump off a high-dive onto a trampoline. But when the ...

Marla Frazee won a 2009 Caldecott Honor Book award for “A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever.” Marla began drawing when she was a young child. “As soon as I learned how to read and write, I was ...

That's Mac Barnett reading one of the very few lines from his children's book, "The Great Zapfino." It's the story of a circus performer whose act is called "The Leap For Life." And it's narrated by a ...