![]() This first entry in a series is both sweet and suspenseful. But if Buddy can’t get out of the house, how is he going to use his skills, and his nose, to find Connor? Tugeau’s full-page line drawings enliven a story that should captivate young readers. Every kind of food Buddy encounters, for example, is Buddy’s “favorite food!” Buddy identifies Connor not so much by sight as by smell and describes that smell to get clues from other animals. Enter Dirk Bones, skeletal investigative journalist for the Ghostly Tombs. Two specters haunting a house in the aptly named town of Ghostly are frightened by mysterious, un-ghostly clackings and clickings. Has Connor been kidnapped? Butler tells the story from Buddy’s perspective, throwing in details to convince readers that it’s really Buddy talking. The creator of Aunt Eater and Inspector Hopper opens a new easy-reader series featuring an even less conventional sleuth. When Connor suddenly disappears, Buddy tries to find him. Buddy is a detective dog who uses logic and facts to find solutions to mysteries. Still, Buddy/King is determined to find his old family, and it looks like he’s landed in his old neighborhood. But he’s quickly adopted and renamed “Buddy” by a mom and her son, Connor. ![]() ![]() Left with Uncle Marty, King finds himself in a place called the P-O-U-N-D. Golden retriever King can’t understand where his family has gone. ![]()
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