This is a great book for children who loves cars and ghosts (or Halloween or other spooky things). The illustrations are excellent. I plan to purchase this book for my car loving nephew.

Overall, this is a really fun and spooky Halloween book for kids that love race cars. However, I feel like there is a possibility of confusion while reading due to the amount of characters involved in the story. About halfway through reading, it became difficult to tell which car was which, and I couldn't match names with faces because there was so much going on. I would definitely caution against this in a kids' book because it's best to keep books such as these simple and clear. Honestly, I would limit the number of ghost cars to one or two, just to avoid having this book be so overwhelming. That aside, I liked the idea and the illustrations of this book, and I think that it was written well. There was just enough writing on each page to push/challenge readers a bit while maintaining the lightheartenedness of the book as a whole. Lastly, the illustrations perfectly captured the spooky yet whimsical mood of the book, which is always awesome.

What a cute story for our littlest readers. My three year old saw the cover of this book and said “ohh that one!” When given an option of several bedtime stories. Cars are always a win in our house!

Buster and his friends are off on a spooky adventure through a haunted car graveyard. Along the way, the group of friends enjoy a laugh, learn empathy for each other, and learn to be brave. And of course, don’t worry, the ghosts are nice!

We really enjoyed the story and the art work in this book. Thank you to NetGalley and Tommy Nelson for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

My kids absolutely LOVED watching the Daytona 500- so this was such a fun book to read with my three little boys under five. The story was so fun, and the pictures were wonderfully done. Highly recommend adding this to your sweet boys bookshelf.

I want to start by thanking the author and publisher for the opportunity to read an advance release copy of this book. We love the Buster books! Very cute!

A race car graveyard and a spooky haunted forest? Sounds great for a Halloween adventure!

I read this book with my two boys, ages 8 and 4. They were both very engaged with the story. The youngest was inspired halfway through to dig through his hotwheels collection until he found his 'nascar'.

When I asked them what their favorite parts were, this is what they said:
4 year old: "When the friend got stuck in the vines but I thought it was a ghost that got him. I was so surprised!"
8 year old: "The racecar pictures at the front." (lol)

I thought it was a really great story, constructed well by opening with a ghost story before they set out on their adventure. The themes of bravery and getting a little taste of your own medicine were very well done. I personally felt like the setting descriptions were excessive for the format, as every page had big beautiful illustrations SHOWING the setting.

This was our first Buster book and it was a hit for us!

The colour palette and artwork are gorgeous! My son absolutely loved this book. It has all of his favourite things in it. The story was good but the words didn’t roll off the tongue very well so it felt a little clunky to read.

I want to say thank you to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for all allowing me and my children the privilege of being able to read this book.

I was so excited to see a kids book written by Dale Earnhardt Jr. I grew up in a family of diehard Nascar watchers and the both he and his father and are and were well loved in our home. We've never gotten our hands on one of his kids books before and as soon as this one is published it and the rest will be coming home with us! That has nothing to do with the Nascar love and references throughout this book. It has to do with the extremely well thought out story, the beautiful pictures and the way my kids attention stayed on this story. They're 8 and 10 and love cars and this the first book in a really long while we're they both say waiting for me to read each page to them. A lot of kids books are anymore slightly directed at being silly well trying to instill a message oftentimes it happens a lot so the message gets missed in the fun. Well my kids thought this was fun and a really good read, I think they actually got the message of the story and it was a beautiful and very good one at that!

So thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart for allowing me and my children to enjoy this book so much! We can't wait until we bring it and the others home to us!

This is the second Buster book that my family has read. My boys are big into race cars, so these books have been a hit. We loved the spooky theme. I also appreciated the focus on being a good friend and what it means to be brave. The illustrations were spot on in terms of fitting the vibe of the story. Overall, we enjoyed this and are excited for more Buster books.