OMG! There is a book about PLUM TUCKER!!!

My Aunt Shawn has alerted me to this amazing book, The Adventures of Plum Tucker, thinking that I already knew about it and named Plum after it - I didn't know about this series and I definitely didn't know about the book... but this is TOO AWESOME. Here is the book image I found:
And here is a description of it:
"Staying the summer with their relatives in Park City, Oregon, the children are kept perpetually busy by Uncle Roger, who eventually takes Terry and Merry fishing for the weekend, accompanied by Aunt Lila, leaving Tina, Penny, and Tom in the care of their bookish cousin Ted, who's at a loss to know what to do with such active children. But it's Tom who precipitates the kids' summer project: upon being introduced to a sleepy basset hound puppy whose breeder describes him as "plumb tuckered out," Tom assumes "Plum Tucker" is their dog, and the all the children, having fallen in love with the sweet puppy, spend the rest of the summer trying to earn money to buy the dog."
Copyright 1961, royal blue spine, 282 pages, green illustrations

Um, I'm stunned. How cool is that?!! Here is a link to a page about the Tucker series.