"You can't catch us--we're buttermilk and cayenne!" In a spicy and sweet sequel to her best-selling book, The Cajun Cornbread Boy, author Dianne de Las Casas brings to life a new friend for the Cornbread Boy--the sticky sweet Buttermilk Biscuit Girl. With her pecan eyes, blueberry nose, candied orange mouth, and a swirl of strawberry perserves for hair, she looks sweet enough to eat! When the two of them run off together to avoid being eaten their adventures echo the classic Southern tale. All's well that ends well with lots of little Cajun Buttermilk Drops and a recipe to bake up a batch for hungry readers! Illustrator Marita Gentry reprises her charming illustrations for this delightful leap into another adapted folktale.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Pelican Publishing Co .

Dianne de Las Casas is an award-winning author, storyteller, recording artist, and founder of the celebrated November Is Picture Book Month initiative. She hunts and pecks a good story everywhere she goes. Her work has earned rave reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus. She performs worldwide at schools, conferences, and special events and is the author of many picture books with Pelican, including Mama's Bayou, The House That Witchy Built, and Blue Frog: The Legend of Chocolate. She lives with her family in Harvey, Louisiana. Stefan Jolet grew up in the culturally rich Cajun community of New Iberia, Louisiana. He began drawing at the tender age of four, and his graphic arts career has spanned nearly two decades. Jolet is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and resides in Youngsville, Louisiana, with his family. Ryan Adam was born on the bayou and grew up in Houma, Louisiana. An avid reader, writer, and filmmaker, Adam works in the hospitality industry and as a film-production assistant. Two of his screenplays were semi-finalists for the 2006 Writer's Network Annual Screenplay and Fiction Competition, and he has had several short stories published in Delgado Community College's award-winning literary magazine, Images. Adam lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Marita Gentry is a professional artist whose artwork is featured in galleries throughout Louisiana. A recipient of numerous awards and commissions and an accomplished teacher, she is involved in several artist-in-residence programs each year. Gentry's other titles with Pelican include Beware, Beware of the Big Bad Bear!, Madame Poulet and Monsieur Roach, The Cajun Cornbread Boy, The Gigantic Sweet Potato, There's a Dragon in the Library, and Dinosaur Mardi Gras.