Nuts, I missed posting yesterday! Maybe I can fit in two today.

Slowly posting all my favorite books for the year so far.

First up:

Sweet, sweet Buster is back! Buster is an adorably emotive pup crafted by super dynamo Denise Fleming. She paints with paper pulp and relishes bold color, great nouns and exciting verbs.

This is hand's down Logan's most favorite book ever. He, too, is often homesick like Buster. But when Buster gets to play with bouncy balls, make art projects and eat beans and bacon at a campfire cookout the days and nights at camp fly by. At the back of the book there is a glossary of all the fun cowboy words used.

Denise has a lovely website full of activities. While there you can make your own Buster and sign up for her excellent newsletter which is run by sock monkeys.

Here is Logan reading a favorite page where the dogs gather sticks for the campfire. And no, that isn't my furry finger in the picture corner above. That is Bebop once again ruining Logan's quiet reading time. Bebop would scratch our eyes out if we interrupted him while reading HIS favorite books: No Kiss For Mother and Rotten Ralph.

And today's related good news via Fuse #8 that all the Ungerer books are being reissued!

(Does Bebop think he's looking in a mirror when he reads this book?)

(Was Bebop Jack Gantos's cat in another life?)