SURPRIZZE!: Fly Guy's Big Family by Tedd Arnold

A BOY HAD A PET FLY. HIS NAME WAS FLY GUY.

FLY GUY COULD SAY THE BOY'S NAME, "BUZZ."

One day Buzz heads outside, hoping to play with his buddy Fly Guy.

He finds his friend glumly drawing pictures of his long-lost family.

"I BET YOU MISS THEM," SAYS BUZZ.

"YEZZ!" SAYS FLY GUY.

Buzz has an inspiration. He decides to plan a surprise reunion for Fly Guy's family. He knows just where to place his invitations. He creates lotz of posters and puts them up around neighborhood garbage cans and at the town dump. The local flies see the signs but they are a little wary of assembling together in one place. It could be a DISAZZTER!

"SWATTERZZ?"

Buzz promisez that his party will be a swatter-free zone.

And Buzz plans for plenty of refreshmentz suited to guestz of the garbage persuasion. A garbage truck drives up and dumps a pile of genuine garbage in his front yard. Swarmz of guestz begin to azzemble! When his friend Fly Guy arrives, he yells:

"SURPRIZZZE!"

Fly Guy is almozt overcome. He tearz up as he cries...

Buzz's on-the-fly family reunion is a big SUCCEZZ!

The guestz chow down on the awful offal, and the putrid picnic is perfect for his clientele, who stuff their facez with moldy morsels and even take care of the cleanup dutiez. And Fly Guy's parentz even prezent him with a framed portrait of him as a cute little pazzifier-zucking larva.

Fly Guy gives Buzz a high five and and sincere THANKZ, BUZZ! in noted author-illustrator's seventeen title in his Fly Guy series, Fly Guy's Big Family (Fly Guy 17) (Scholastic Press, 2018). For kids who need to brush up on their beginning reading skills, it's Fly Guy to the rescue. Arnold makes the early reading lots of fun in the best tradition of its creator, Dr. Seuss, making sounding out sounds part of the fun in this laugh fezt for the cognozcenti! It's a noxious nosh to remember, or, as Kirkus Reviews quipz, ""Readers will agree it's the least a boy could do for his buzzom buddy."