| Clovis Crawfish and Bidon Box Turtle Contributor(s): Fontenot, Mary Alice (Author), Blazek, Scott (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1565540573 ISBN-13: 9781565540576 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: Bidon Box Turtle has only one problem. He is a Mississippi land turtle who wants to cross the bayou and not get his hat wet. How will Clovis and company help their new friend? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction |
| Dewey: E |
| LCCN: 93044340 |
| Series: Clovis Crawfish |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 8.77" W x 11.33" (0.72 lbs) 32 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 14974 Reading Level: 2.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Clovis and his friends find that things are not always as they appear. On closer inspection, Clovis, Lizette Lizard, Ren 1/2 Rain Frog, and Bertile Butterfly find a turtle named Abraham Buckingham Calhoun, but they call him Bidon Box Turtle. Bidon Box Turtle has only one problem. He is a Mississippi land turtle who wants to cross the bayou and not get his hat wet. Clovis and friends come to the rescue, proving that with a little help and many hands anything is possible. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fontenot, Mary Alice: - Mary Alice Fontenot (1910-2003) was born in Arcadia Parish and worked on her grandfather's Bayou Tigre farm in her youth. Fontenot spent thirty-five years as a journalist for multiple Louisiana publications and had a career as a kindergarten teacher. Named a Louisiana Legend by Louisiana Public Broadcasting and a Living Legend by the Arcadian Museum, she also received the 1998 Acadiana Arts Council Lifetime Achievement Award. Fontenot wrote eighteen books for the Clovis Crawfish Series. Blazek, Scott: -Clovis, New Mexico, resident Scott R. Blazek won the 1993 prize for designing a five-dollar coin featuring James Madison in the US Mint's Bill of Rights Coins Set. He illustrated half of the books in the Clovis Crawfish Series. |