The Human Kaboom

A crying girl holding a candle is surrounded by circus performers who look at her sadly.

A person is shot out of a cannon in the grounds of a castle by the sea. A crowd watches as they fly across the night sky over the ocean.

A clown balances on one foot and juggles three clubs on fire.

Seven trapeze artists swing and fly through the air as they perform above a crowd at the circus.

A circus performer balances on a horse on her hands with her legs doing the splits.

I worked with Penguin Random House (US) on illustrations for one of the stories in Adam Rubin’s middle-grade story collection, The Human Kaboom.

The book is a collection of six very different stories with the exact same name. I illustrated a story about the world’s greatest circus and the friendship that develops between a young girl Zuzana and a blind human canonball performer.