The Journey Daybook, Inc.

Below is information about a Christmas gift and arts support opportunity that was sent to the Journey Daybook for your consideration and to include on our blog by Kim Howard, a JDB Alum and good friend who lives in Idaho –

A Magic Circus is a beautiful BIG book written in both English and Spanish that would be appropriate as a Christmas present. We need to sell more books to support Entreamigos, a recycling and educational non-profit and pay for my ticket down there to organize another book.

In, 2014 I volunteered my illustration services to Entreamigos for seven weeks, 45 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta, living on the jungle of Nayarit.  We put together a children’s picture book about Cirque du Soleil founder, Gilles Ste Croix’s generous leadership and direction in building a circus of garbage with new talent of the San Pancho village people. I go back on Jan 23 for two months to volunteer on a new book.

The story takes place in San Pancho, or San Francisco, Nayarit, MX.  It is the fictional story of a real story about Gilles Ste-Croix, founder of Cirque du Soleile, a retired clown, who comes into San Pancho and witnesses a hurricane that tears through the little seaside village. He teaches the children how to put on a circus and saves the animals dying in the estuary. They have been ravaged, as has the village,  by the garbage and mess of the storm.  A circus is grown out of the clean up of San Pancho and the village becomes healthy and beautiful again.  With trapezes of plant and fallen clothing lines, and magical broken mirrors and glass and tin cans, the children rebuild the town and the color and life comes back!

The art is created by the children and volunteers of Entreamigos under my tutelage and hand.  And the story came out of actual events.  It is a large full color hard bound book, and only 500 have been printed in this first round.  It is a limited edition book.

The book costs 30.00 plus shipping. The check needs to be written to me:

Kim Howard and sent to the below address.

Kim Howard

420 San Badger Drive

Hailey, Idaho 83333

My email is kimhow111@gmail.com