from BookConcierge

Subtitle: My Summers With Buster Keaton This graphic novel explores the early 20th century era of Vaudeville, and one particular summer resort that catered to many of the era's Vaudeville stars – including the Keaton family and their talented son, Buster. It's 1908 and Henry Harrison, whose fathe...

from Rosa.Mill

I got a chance at a recent conference to listen to the author discuss how he came up with the idea for the work and what he did to prepare to write it. It's a fun story that shows that some kids just want to be normal and others just want to be special. I loved watching the friendship develop and...

from Rosa.Mill

I got a chance at a recent conference to listen to the author discuss how he came up with the idea for the work and what he did to prepare to write it. It's a fun story that shows that some kids just want to be normal and others just want to be special. I loved watching the friendship develop and...

from TimBazzett

While I did love the colorful and fanciful illustrations in Matt Phelan's BLUFFTON, I was a bit disappointed at the brevity of the story. I guess I wanted more text, about the young Buster Keaton's summers in the Muskegon, Michigan, beach community. The story itself was, I thought, simply too pie...

from Mad.River.Librarian

A slice of Americana, served up with an ice-cold lemonade. Fictionalized memoir of summers spent with Buster Keaton, long before he became a household name, but as a tremendous talent on the vaudeville scene with his family. They would spend summer in the sleepy lakeside community of Bluffton, Mi...