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K-3
Illustrated by
Cat Bowman Smith.
Although Grampa Baby spoils Feliciana most of the time, he refuses to take her alligator hunting. Feliciana, a spunky, determined young girl, decides to go anyway and sneaks off to the swamp after her grandfather and brothers. Told in a lilting Cajun dialect, this enjoyable original tale includes a brief history of the Cajun people. Action-filled illustrations accompany the story. Glos.
Reviewer: Patricia Riley
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 1995
32 pp.
| Little
| April, 2000
|
TradeISBN 0-316-84189-7$$14.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Andrew Glass.
Remington has come to visit his country cousins, and they don't quite know how to deal with him. He doesn't like the local cuisine or swimming in brown water, but he finally agrees to go fishing. This fish story has been spiced up with a Cajun rhythm, and the illustrations
32 pp.
| Little
| January, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-316-84133-1
(3)
K-3
Feliciana wakes up cantankerous and causes trouble all day, so the Cajun werewolf Loup Garou comes to eat her. Thanks to her spunk, he instead shows her a way out of her snit. The watercolors are active, narrative, and appropriately dramatic. The Cajun dialect makes for some halting reading, but the tale is rousing and the heroine gets right to the reader's heart. An author's note is included. Glos.