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About Coleen Salley
See more books from this AuthorHis encounters with Alligator, Raccoon, Nutria, and Armadillo will have kids giggling out loud as they foresee what comes next, especially with Mama’s final caution: “Be careful about stepping on those pies.” In “A Storyteller’s Note,” Salley (a professional storyteller) cites the origin and rewo...
| Read Full Review of EpossumondasStevens’s bright and whimsical illustrations, full of detail, feature a necktie-wearing bear (bee-pattern, of course), a rabbit in a carrot-festooned shirt, and the return of Epossumondas in his diaper, sitting on Salley’s lap as she tells this tale about tails.
| Read Full Review of EpossumondasEach time he hears a scary snarl, hiss or snort, he plays possum and the swamp critters leave him alone because they “don’t eat no dead meat.” When the swamp buzzard snatches him up, though, Epossumondas squirms, and the bird promptly drops him saying, “I never, ever eat no live meat.” When Mama ...
| Read Full Review of EpossumondasThis high-spirited Louisiana version of the traditional folktale, “Sody Sallyraytus,” is great fun to read aloud.
| Read Full Review of EpossumondasIn the late Salley's last picture book, the fourth to feature Epossumondas and his Mama, Mama warns the possum to steer clear of the swamp because the dreaded “loup-garou snatches [possums] right up with its big ugly claws!” But Epossumondas follows a butterfly into the eerie swamplands, where a ...
Sep 14 2009 | Read Full Review of EpossumondasThe diapered furry hero and his human mother are back to explain Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail by Colleen Salley, illus.
| Read Full Review of EpossumondasFoolish Jack is cast here as a pampered, over-mothered Louisiana possum in a refreshingly retold version by New Orleans storyteller Salley (Who's That Trippin' over My Bridge?).
| Read Full Review of EpossumondasWhen he shared this with his wily friend, Hare, the rabbit came up with a typical trickster idea: Papapossum should climb Bear's persimmon tree, something Hare could not do himself, and throw down half of what he could pick.
Oct 03 2004 | Read Full Review of EpossumondasBut she was out of sody sallyratus ("sody sallyratus" is an old Southern term for baking soda, drawn as the "Tail and Hammer" brand in the book).
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