Friendship is the underlying subject as the beauty and dangers of bayou life are depicted in this, the very first volume in the landmark Clovis Crawfish series, now in full color for the first time.

 

This book is part of a book series called Clovis Crawfish .

This book has been graded for interest at 6-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Pelican Publishing Co .

Keith Graves is the author and/or illustrator of many picture books. His own children, thirteen-year-old twins (a boy and a girl) inspired this story. 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.