Buster Bee and the Day That Wouldn’t Fit
Buster Bee expects every year to follow the same dependable pattern, but one extra date seems to have nowhere to go. His search leads to February…

Bugville Critters
A Vowel-and-Consonant Mystery About Listening to Sounds
By R. Stanek (Robert Stanek)
Buster Bee thinks every letter should have one clear job—until the letter Y begins behaving differently from word to word. Sometimes it stands at the beginning and makes a consonant sound; elsewhere it helps form the vowel sound inside a syllable. Buster follows the clues, compares examples, and listens closely for what changes.
Playful, curious, and created for young ears, Buster Bee and the Letter with Two Jobs introduces an important phonics idea through story rather than memorization. Listeners discover that a letter’s role depends on where it appears and how a word sounds, encouraging flexible thinking, careful pronunciation, and confidence when decoding unfamiliar vocabulary.
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