Bess Kalb has a knack for making kids laugh without ever talking down to them. Her new children’s picture book, Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo , is the follow-up to her bestselling debut Buffalo Fluffalo , and it extends the world of one very, fluffy buffalo who charms children from Brooklyn to Montana.

Kalb, a Park Slope resident, says her latest installment felt like coming home to a character she already loved.

“The first book was inventing an entire world,” she said. “I had to create this character and a whole cast of friends: Ram, Prairie Dog, Crow, Buffalo Fluffalo. With the second book, the world was already there. The book grows up a little bit. It’s a new experience with characters I’d already created.”

The story follows a gruff and older Buffalo Fluffalo, and how he lear

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