Buster Baxter

"I know one person who's always happy. He's never been upset for more than three seconds. Buster Baxter. The happiest jolliest most fun."
 * &mdash; Arthur Read, "Buster's Growing Grudge"

Buster Baxter is an imporant Key character in the Arthur books and TV episodes. He is eight years old and in the third grade. He is the bestfriend of Arthur Read.

Profile

 * Name: Buster Baxter
 * Gender: Male
 * Birthday: April 15
 * Age: 8
 * Parents: Bo Baxter (father), Bitzi Baxter (mother)
 * Also known as: Buster
 * Likes: Eating, Food, Outer Space, Comics, Hanging out with Arthur, Dinosaurs, Bionic Bunny,
 * Dislikes: Bad grades

Personality
Generally, Buster has a somewhat short attention span.

Although Buster is generally a nice person, he has been shown to resort to stealing if he sees something he wants but can't have. However, after stealing an item, Buster will feel guilty about doing so and sometimes be scared about being arrested for stealing. In the end Buster will never return the item. Also if Buster gets angry about something he'll tend to stay angry about it for rather a long time and it is usulally the only thing he'll talk about until he can either forget the situation deal with the situation or speak to the person who caused the problem him if this is the case. Buster usually

Whenever something happens with no explanation at the time Buster will suggest the explanation is aliens. The suggestion is usually put down by his friends yet Buster will continue to suggest aliens whenever something unexplainable happens. Occasionally when something unexplainable happens, Arthur will suggest aliens before Buster does. Buster then genuinely believes Arthur until he points out that the only reason he said it was because he knew Buster would've said it if he hadn't.

When it comes to tests exams or homework Buster is usually forgetful and just carries on with watching TV and hanging out with his mates only usually getting started on the work when it has to be handed in.

If Buster is insulted or something he owns is insulted he will get quite angry about it and doesn't talk to the person much after wards. However when he does although he is still generally still mad with them at first he will usually forgive them after an apology is given or why somebody did what they did.

Other Media
In the Living Books computer games such as Arthur's Teacher Trouble and Arthur's Birthday

Family and home
Buster is the adopted child of Bitzi and Bo Baxter. However, they got divorced.

In recent seasons, Bitzi started dating Harry Mills, a fellow photographer and journalist at the Elwood City Times. After getting over his initial theory Harry was an alien, Buster became best friends with Harry, having shared the same interests in sports, food, etc. Buster was disappointed to learn that his mom broke up with Harry much later on in the show, but the three of them remain the best of friends.

Friends
Buster is the bestfriendwith Arthur Read. He is also friends with the Brain, Binky Barnes, and a few others. B

(Arthur) Spin-Off
Postcards From Buster