Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Matt Phelan, graphic novelist extraordinaire, presents a rollicking tribute to vaudeville, small-town dreams, and Buster Keaton as a boy.

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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Release: July 23, 2013

ISBN: 076365079X

ISBN 13: 9780763650797

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Matt Phelan, graphic novelist extraordinaire, presents a rollicking tribute to vaudeville, small-town dreams, and Buster Keaton as a boy.

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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Release: July 23, 2013

ISBN: 076365079X

ISBN 13: 9780763650797

More books from Matt Phelan

Around the World

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Flora's Very Windy Day

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Marilyn's Monster

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Where I Live

A Kite for Moon

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Turtle Walk

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Very Hairy Bear

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Sweater Weather

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Druthers

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Knights vs. Dinosaurs

3.8/5 ( ratings)

If Wendell Had a Walrus

Comics Squad #3: Detention!

4.4/5 ( ratings)

What Are You Waiting For?

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Big George: How a Shy Boy Became President Washington

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Knights vs. Monsters

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Leave It to Plum!

3.7/5 ( ratings)

A Box Full of Kittens

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Xander's Panda Party

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?