Keep Your Eye on the Kid, by Catherine Brighton

Rating: Very Good
Roaring Brook, 2008, $16.95
ISBN: 1596432764
Age/Grade Level: Grades 2-5
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This vivid account of Buster Keaton's early years, told in first-person narrative, takes us from his birth to vandevillean parents to his own precocious antics
and follows his growing fascination with moving pictures to his first successful solo foray into silent film.

True to the picture book format, the comic-book frames and cartoon-style illustrations by the author almost take precedence over the droll and witty dead-pan text and should captivate young readers probably unfamiliar with the streets and stages of early 20th century America.

Reviewer: B. Carswell, Orange County Public Library/West Garden Grove Branch