Bluffton My Summers with Buster by Matt Phelan
Bluffton My Summers with Buster by Matt Phelan
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Author(s): Matt Phelan
Pub: Candlewick Press
Pack Qty: 0 (Hardback)
ISBN: 9780763650797 - New
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Performing Arts, Theater, Social Issues, Friendship
210mm x 177mm x 20mm
Publication: 23 July 2013Pages: 223
In the summer of 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, a visiting troupe of vaudeville performers is about the most exciting thing since baseball. They're summering in nearby Bluffton, so Henry has a few months to ogle the elephant and the zebra, the tightrope walkers and ' lo and behold ' a slapstick actor his own age named Buster Keaton. The show folk say Buster is indestructible; his father throws him around as part of the act and the audience roars, while Buster never cracks a smile. Henry longs to learn to take a fall like Buster, "the human mop," but Buster just wants to play ball with Henry and his friends. With signature nostalgia, Scott O'Dell Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan visualizes a bygone era with lustrous color, dynamic lines, and flawless dramatic pacing.
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