Books like Buz by Richard Egielski
When a little boy swallows a bug along with his cereal, pandemonium breaks out as the bug searches for an escape, the boy searches for an antidote, and Keystone Cops-like pills search for the bug.
First publish date: 1995
Authors: Richard Egielski
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