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Fleming, Candace

Gator Gumbo: A Spicy-Hot Tale

32 pp. | Farrar/Kroupa | March, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-374-38050-3 $$16.00

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Sally Anne Lambert. In this Cajun take-off on "The Little Red Hen," hungry Monsieur Gator is getting too old to "catch himself a taste of possum...or a whiff of stripe-tailed skunk." The animals tease him, until the gator cooks up a pot of gumbo that brings them begging for a taste--and we know they're going to get it. The expressive illustrations will win sympathy for the gator, and the mean critters are surely deserving of their fate.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2004