Description: Welcome to the website of Donna Lee Dicksson. Author of historical books including Pet Lions & Well-Dressed Elephants. She is also an avid photographer.
Raised on opposite shores of Lake Ontario in the mid-19th century, two talented young adults begin their journey toward becoming key players in the birth and success of P.T. Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth.”
Charley was lucky. Although no one had ever said it out loud, he was accepted as one of the insiders. It hadn’t been because of his years with them or because of his fine work that got him in. It was because John-John trusted him…and everyone trusted John-John. The blue-eyed bird man had grown up on a chicken farm and was the kindest, gentlest fellow on the lot. He looked like he could bend iron with his bare hands and yet he got downright sissy when he started talking about his birds. He’d been working for
A circus love story! Like the Forest Gump story, Pet Lions & Well-Dressed Elephants is an adventure story. It is also a love story about two people who fall in love with the circus and then with each other in the exciting, mysterious, and magical world of the circus in the 19th Century.