Clovis Crawfish and Simeon Suce-Fleur

by Mary Alice Fontenot, Scott Blazek (Illustrator)

Overview

It's springtime in south Louisiana, or is it? Clovis Crawfish isn't about to wait around in his mudhouse to find out!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882897516
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	08/31/1990
Series:	Clovis Crawfish
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

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.

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.