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Johnette Downing
Singing Waters, A Selection of Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun is a collection of over one hundred previously published poems by Johnette Downing. Divided into water chapters to evoke a mood…
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Illustrations and rhythmic text about the different bugs that characterizes Louisiana.
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Petit Pierre has made a home for himself on the coast where Louisiana meets Mississippi, and now it is time for him to learn how to plunge-dive. Brown pelicans typically…
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There was an old lady who swallowed a fly… the fly and all the other creepy crawly bugs the old lady gulps down. With a taste for slugs, the old…
Louisiana author and illustrator Johnette Downing captures charming holiday traditions in this counting book for emerging readers. From one to ten the images of holiday bonfires and Christmas practices along…
In this variation on the traditional song, the narrator’s aunt makes repeated trips to Louisiana, returning with a bag of red beans from New Orleans, gumbo from Thibodaux, peaches from…
A is for Amazon, B is for boa constrictor, C is for caiman, and Z is for zoologist in this colorful and informative nonfiction picture book for young readers. Each…
Illustrations and easy-to-read rhyming text follow a jazz funeral line to and from a cemetery in a make-believe funeral on Halloween. Includes author’s notes on traditional funerals in New Orleans.
Believed to have originated in twelfth-century France, the king cake tradition is an homage to the wise men (three kings). In New Orleans, as in Europe, a charm or plastic…
A delightful introduction to the colorful world of bugs hops, skips, jumps, and crawls across the pages of this entertaining counting board book for preschoolers.
Singing Waters is a selection of over 100 of Johnette Downing’s previously published haiku, senryu, and haibun in one volume. These are healing poems, menders of the broken bones we…
Lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and pickles-what makes this sandwich so special? Why, it’s a Po’ boy, of course! Made Louisiana-style with Blue Plate Mayonnaise, Creole tomatoes straight from the vine, hot…
When Crawfish takes advantage of Crab’s generosity, his trickery costs him the friendship.
In this fun rhyming book, learn to count and subtract with the little possums.
Louisiana became a state in 1812. This … picture book introduces young readers to the state symbols, from its flag to the state vegetable. A timeline provides the year that…
A rooster vows he will not end up in the Mardi Gras community gumbo and warns the animals throughout Acadiana so they too can stay out of the pot. Includes…
Illustrations and rhythmic text celebrate edible treats that characterize Louisiana, such as beignets and po boys. Includes facts about the foods mentioned and a recipe for red beans and rice.
In this variation on the traditional song Aiken Drum, Chef Creole from New Orleans has hair of rice, eyes of red beans, and feet of beignets.
Explains why oysters make pearls and dangerous snakes have diamond-shaped heads.
Sly Possum is manipulative and knows that the very hungry Deer will do anything to reach the beautiful persimmons waiting in the tree. Possum is hungry as well, but does…
A dream takes a child to a dessert island, with cake for a bed and a moon like a pie. Natural snacks abound too: fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Ends with…
Long ago, when a young woman’s beauty made other girls jealous, they cursed her with ugliness but on New Year’s Eve, she comes out of hiding to reward good children…
This variation of the familiar verse Over in the Meadow introduces animals and their offspring that live in Mississippi, from a mother dolphin and her dolphin one to a mother…
As Petit Pierre journeys across the wetlands, he asks each creature where he should live. He accumulates gifts from them until he realizes the wetlands are home to all his…
"A child boasts about his parrain's superhuman strength and wolflike qualities as proof that the parrain is in fact the legendary mythical creature, the Loup Garou"--
