Product Description

Lift the flaps and share in Buster's various activities throughout a very busy day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86678 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Board book
• 20 pages

About the Author
Rod Campbell - the founder of Campbell Books - has been writing and illustrating books for babies for nearly twenty years. He is the highly acclaimed and popular author of the Buster books, and of the phenomenally successful Dear Zoo. His top-quality books for toddlers are well-known amongst both teachers and parents of pre-school children.

Customer Reviews

Buster's Day
A Lovely book from Rod Campbell, Buster the baby spends his day around the home and in the garden meeting lots of familiar things ie brushes, the hoover, cake, biscuits, items sometimes overlooked as they probably aren't viewed as that exciting. Ideal for babies just learning their first words, the little flaps are beautifuly fitted into the illustrations making it a really interesting book for this age group.

One of Campbell's best
This was one of the first books I bought for my son by Rod Campbell. He adored it. Now his little sister has it and SHE adores it. The illustrations are charmingly simple, yet include sweet attentions to detail allowing you to name incidental objects in the home and garden that are relevant to a small person's life - different fruit, biscuits, toys, saucepans, creatures etc.

The text is appropriately minimal without being completely inane: "Buster finds lots to do all day long. Buster helps with the washing. What's in the washing machine?". Every page is some such small domestic scene that any small person can identify with. It is homely, comforting and familiar.

An earlier reviewer slated this for teaching small children dangerous habits around the house. I feel that this book is targetted at such young children that the danger is not relevant - when I started to read this to my children they were not even walking so the idea of them climbing into the bath unaided because of a story I'd read them never crossed my mind. My children never noticed the absence of an adult in the book, the story is about the little boy - the fact that an adult is reading it is sufficient for them.

My experience of reading this to my little ones has always been positive. Also, the flaps have been lifted and tugged repeatedly and are reasonably robust. I heartily recommend this to all parents of infants.

Disappointed
I bought this book for my 14 month old and although she loves the book I will not be letting her look at it once she is too much older. I think in general the Rod Campbell books are very good, but to write a book that shows an unsupervised baby trying to reach up to get into a kitchen cupboard for some food, and have a bath by itself is, I feel, more than a little irresponsible. The only way I will let my child have this book when she is a bit older is to change the wording on the first page to 'Buster is a naughty baby!'