| Clovis Crawfish and Michelle Mantis Full-Color Edition Contributor(s): Fontenot, Mary Alice (Author), Blazek, Scott (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1589805402 ISBN-13: 9781589805408 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Clovis Crawfish and all his friends return in a new bayou tale. Michelle Mantis, an ugly old insect with an enormous appetite, visits the swamp home of Clovis and his friends. Her voracious appetite alarms Clovis's friends, as Michelle eats and eats until she can scarcely move. But when Michelle tumbles into the mud, Clovis must rally the other swamp creatures to help. The book includes a song with lyrics in English and French, and a pronunciation guide for Cajun expressions. The colorful illustrations by Scott Blazek bring all the bayou denizens to life. With a combined total of 56,000 copies in print, the nine books chronicling the adventures of Clovis Crawfish are perennial favorites in Louisiana and elsewhere. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Clovis Crawfish |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.7" W x 11" (0.85 lbs) 32 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this bayou adventure, Michelle Mantis, an ugly old critter, enters the bayou friends' territory. She is a ravenous praying mantis and is called the "cheval de diable" (devil's horse) in French. With her insatiable appetite, Michelle wants to consume everything in sight, including Clovis's friends Clovis defends them, and the hungry insect settles for some ants, eating one after another. Her stomach full, she falls off a log onto the muddy bayou bank, but with mud on her wings, she cannot fly. Josette June Bug, Christophe Cricket, and the rest of Clovis's friends were fearful of Michelle, but now Clovis rallies them to free her and send her on her way. |
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. |