Buster The Very Shy Dog In The Great Bone Game

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: September 8, 2016

Review

Phoebe has the run of the house and lots of bones stockpiled. Then Buster shows up. Suddenly Phoebe has another dog to compete with for the supply of bones. Phoebe is clever, though. She convinces Buster that he must train his bones to stay or they will disappear. Through cunning and trickery, Phoebe amasses all of Buster's bones and adds them to her pile. Will Buster ever figure out what is going on? In a second short story, Buster is grown and Phoebe has plans to have Buster help her to steal a huge bone from the big dog next door. That turns out differently than Phoebe had hoped and the reader will cheer. The illustrations are adorable and expressive and portray the text well. These stories are very amusing and youngsters ages 6 to about 9 will enjoy reading them to themselves as well as aloud. Definitely consider this for your beginner reader or younger juvenile readers shelves.

Overall Book Score: very good