This brief, stirring benediction—based on a “call-and-response version of a Jewish baby-naming blessing,” Frazee (The Great Zapfino) notes on the book’s dedication page—starts with new ...

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 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 ...