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  • Irma Thomas

    Soul Queen of New Orleans

    by Johnette Downing, Scott Billington ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Irma Thomas is a beloved New Orleans icon with a career that now spans sixty years. Her self-penned “Wish Someone Would Care” was a national hit in 1964, though she did not win her first Grammy until 2007 for her post-Hurricane Katrina album, After the Rain. A contemporary of artists like Aretha Franklin and Etta James, she followed a different path to fame and acclaim.The course of Irma Thomas’s ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Bugs

    by Johnette Downing ...
    A gross and giggle-inducing take on the classic children's song with "sly humor and a bit of the unexpected presented with bold art" ( School Library Journal).There was an old lady who swallowed a fly . . . Young readers will love hearing about the fly and all the other creepy-crawly bugs the old lady gulps down in this fanciful feast. With a taste for slugs, the old lady enjoys a poached roach, a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Parrain Is the Loup Garou

    by Johnette Downing ...
    Illustrated by Heather Stanley ...
    This original Cajun tall tale is a familial love story between a child and his godfather. Like children on the playground, the child boasts to the reader about his parrain's superhuman strength and wolflike qualities as proof that the godfather is in fact the legendary mythical creature, the Loup Garou. As playmates, the child and the parrain set out on magical adventures, perhaps too good to be ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why the Crawfish Lives in the Mud

    by Johnette Downing ...
    From the beloved children's performer, a "trickster tale jazzed up with Cajun French phrases defined both in the text and in a glossary" ( Kirkus Reviews).A long time ago, when Crab and Crawfish were still best friends, Crawfish was feeling particularly lazy—and particularly hungry—as he loafed around the muggy bayou. When Crab arrived with a fish, Crawfish took one listen to his empty belly and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus