Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton

Joe Keaton, Buster, was the child of traveling show parents. He got to travel all over America at a very young age. The stage was not where he wanted to be though. He was facinated by movies and the art behind it. Without his father's help, he moved out and headed to New York to make movies. He later became a movie producer of comedies.

The illustrations and color in the picture book were fantastic and beautiful. It was written from Buster's point of view. It is short and sweet and gets to the point, but still gives plenty of biographical information.

Keep Your Eye on the Kid: the Early Years of Buster Keaton charts the life of the turn-of-the-century comedian. The narrative begins with how he earned his nickname: by falling down the stairs as a child. Harry Houdini said, "Gee, that was some buster the kid took." Keatron was raised by his traveling show people parents. With vintage-looking artwork, the picture book is a simple biography of a movie-obsessed kid who claims he attended school just one day.