Sports Illustrated Year of the Gators Commemorative Issue, Spring 2007

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This issue celebrates Florida's historic 12 months that produced back to back basketball championships and football national title. Relive the 2006-2007 basketball season and emphatic tournament run that made Florida the first repeat champions since 1992. Sports Illustrated takes you inside the Final Four and how Coach Donovan and his Gators won with the right mix of talent, selflessness and desire. Also featured is Florida's football season and how playing one of the toughest schedules in the nation transformed them into a championship team. In their shocking victory over Ohio State, Florida showed it has the talent to dominate for years to come. This issue on the historic year in Florida sports is a must-have for all Gator fans.

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A 'Gator "must have".......2007-05-24

Any University of Florida sports fan must have this wonderful review of our three National Championships in 366 days. A great summary of the history that the Gators made.

Sports Illustrated, Florida Gators BCS Championship Commemorative Issue

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Sports Illustrated, Florida Gators BCS Championship Commemorative Issue
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Manufacturer: The Time Media Company
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ASIN: B000MGB8CQ

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New York, January 11, 2007 - Sports Illustrated Presents has published a special collector's issue commemorating the University of Florida's National Championship. The 80-page magazine, with a limited press run of 160,000 copies, will begin hitting newsstands Thursday January 11th. The special edition, which will be sold at a price of $6.99, features BCS Title Game MVP Chris Leak on its cover with a billing that reads, "FLORIDA GATORS…National Champions 2006."

Highlights of the special issue include:

The 2006 Championship:

Why that Gator is Grinning: Opponents - and pollsters - underestimated the toughness of Urban Meyer's Florida crew.
Urban Legend: How do you build a winner in college football? Hire Urban Meyer to run your program.
A Senior's Moment: At the end of a career clouded by coaching turmoil, Chris Leak enjoys his day in the sun.
Chomped!: In the biggest game of his life, Chris Leak stepped up and the Gators ate up the Buckeyes.
The 2006 Season in Pictures: The resilient Gators bounced back from their only loss with a strong stretch run.

Florida Gators History:

The Greatest Gators of All Time: If you were selecting a team from Florida's alltime best, who would you choose?
'96 vs. '06: In a fantasy game between Florida's two national champions, here's who wins the bragging writes.
The Player Who Found Himself: For Danny Wuerffel, life's greatest reward comes from his work on the streets of New Orleans.
By the Numbers: The Gator's century of football history features prolific passers and SEC dominators.
The Cover Gallery: The Florida Gators have long been front-page news at Sports Illustrated.

As with all Sports Illustrated Presents commemorative issues, this special collector's edition is separate from the current weekly issue of Sports Illustrated, which features an action shot of Chris Leak and is dated January 15, 2007.

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The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo
The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo

The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo
Jean Craighead George
Manufacturer: HarperTrophy
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ASIN: 006440434X

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Vanished?

Liza Poole lives with her mother in one of the last balanced ecosystems in North America -- the Gumbo Limbo Hammock deep within the lush kingdom of the Florida Everglades. Some may think it strange to live outdoors, but Liza feels lucky to live it strange to live outdoors, but Liza feels lucky to live in her small yellow tent amidst tropical birds and exotic plants. And at the center of this natural paradise lies Dajun, the majestic alligator who protects Gumbo Limbo's environment.

Then, one day, a state official arrives with frightening orders. Dajun is scaring people nearby -- he must be killed! Liza takes action to save the invaluable 'gator, but suddenly, he is nowhere to be found. Now, she must find Dajun before it's too late, and her search will lead her into the heart of an exciting eco mystery!

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This book was okay.......2007-03-27

This book was okay, but there were a couple of things I didn't like. There were a couple of questions that the writer didn't answer, like what happened to Travis and Priscilla. Those are some loose ends that were not tied up. I did like the ending. I would think this book is for kids ages eight and up. There are some things that are hard to understand, and there are no pictures. I liked that there was a map in the front that tells where everything in the story is located. I would recommend this book for people that like chapter books and for people that want to learn about Florida.

Bad Book.......2006-04-04

Never read this book. It is boring. The author repeats everything over and over again.

Good Enough.......2005-11-10

This Everglades story is an interesting ecological mystery, but it's a bit too repetitive. (By now if you've read all my reviews you'll know it's one of my pet peeves.) Searching for a missing alligator the entire story is a bit too much, hm? Well, overall it's a good ecological mystery, but only if you're bored should you make the drastic decision to read it.

The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo.......2004-03-28

I have just finish reading a book call The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo. It's about a family who don't have a house yet, because they don't have enough money to build a house. The father was in another country, doing business around the world. He doesn't even know what's happening to his family. Many people say that they don't have house. Well they are, but the mother says that they were on a vacation. She always said that every time because she doesn't want people to know it. So now, their daughter named Liza K., is an adventures girl. She knows all the places in the forest. She even has an alligator friend. Now, she and her friends must save the forest from the people who want to destroy, but then, her alligator friend lost. Now, she's on an adventure to find the alligator and stop the destruction of the forest.

I think this book is good because it tells everybody how important the forest is to us. If we don't have a forest, then how can we live? How can we stay a life without oxygen? Where the oxygen come from? Oh well I think you know where it is. So this book, did, teach us something.

I recommended this book who loves to safe this world.

The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo.......2003-03-15

My story was about a missing gator. Travis is a gator hunter who is trying to shoot the gator. The gator is too big for the protection law. All the characters except Travis are trying to protect him. The main characters are Dujen, Travis, Liza K., and James James. Because he is a smart young man, James James is my favorite character. In my own life I try to be good and kind to others. James James is like this, he is always considerate and thoughtful.
I liked my book. I don't have a single favorite part; My least favorite part is the authors choice of where the characters lived at the end of book. My favorite part was that Travis didn't find Dujen.
I would recomend this book to a person who likes mysteries.

Black Betty : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green"

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Mosley is a literary treasure. This could be his finest.
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Black Betty : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green"
Walter Mosley
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ASIN: 0743451783
Release Date: 2002-11-19

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1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was too much Easy wasn't being told, but he couldn't resist the prospect of seeing Betty again, even if it killed him....

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Mosley is a literary treasure. This could be his finest........2005-10-16

Mosley's Easy Rawlins series of crime novels are collectively a great read. Novel by novel Mosley takes us from the optimistic, sunny post-war LA toward a bleaker, jaded experience - so by the time we get to Black Betty in the early 1960s, Rawlins has worked for 15 hard year trying to better his family, and yet still he keeps getting dragged back into his past - this time to earn a couple of hundred dollars to find the whereabouts of a housemaid whom he once knew as Black Betty.

This time the tension is ratcheted up a notch because of the risk to Rawlins' family of adopted kids, and because of the return of his violent friend Mouse, just out of jail and eager to blow the heads off the people who put him there.

But where Mosley scores is in his faithful recall of the events of the early 1960s - there is mounting Black Anger, the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening and the news bulletins feature a fiery Martin Luther King and...later in the novel, the death of JFK. I've seen many noverls where history is wheeled in to lend gravitas to the narrative, but nobody does it better than Mosley. Seen from the tired, indignant viewpoint of Ezekiel Rawlins, our modern history weighs heavily. I loved this novel and this next summer I'm going to re-read the Rawlins series once more. Five stars? Not enough. Mosley is a literary treasure and Black Betty rates as one of his finest.

Dead Heat.......2003-05-25

Raymond Chandler made the definitive statement about L.A.'s Santa Ana Winds at the beginning of his short story "Red Wind." In Easy Rawlins' L.A., the hot, dry winds that fill the lungs with cactus dust and make the skin peel around the fingernails never seem to stop.

Easy is in search of an erotic dream woman from his childhood who is being sought by one of those rich white families who have more skeletons than clothes in their closets. Around the same time, the very dangerous Raymond "Mouse" Alexander is released from the pen; and Easy's attempt to make a killing in the real estate market run up against a brick wall.

There are plot threads aplenty, and enough characters to fill a passenger liner. Mosley is too good a writer to leave any threads untied, but I do get lost at times with some of the characters. One bad dude is not heard from for a hundred pages when he commits a particularly heinous murder at the very end. "Oh, yeah, wasn't he the guy that ...?" Sometimes, I would have welcomed the list of characters, complete with nicknames, that occasionally accompanies an 800-page Russian novel.

What makes this a minor complaint is that Mosley has such a great sense of place and so much feeling for his characters. We don't meet the character he calls "Black Betty" until the end of the novel, but we keep seeing vignettes from Easy's past that keep building up the suspense, and any expectations are more than fulfilled by an ending that is bloodier than the last act of Hamlet.

A Book Drenched In History.......2003-01-10

Walter Mosley doesn't just write mysteries. He creates a historical landscape peopled with vibrant and authentic characters who like most of us are flawed and lacking in some way. "Black Betty" is Mosley at his best. The mystery is enthralling and many layered, the atmosphere electric, and the villains exquisitely evil.

The time is 1961 the era of Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and the beginning of The Civil rights movement. Easy Rawlings is raising two adopted children on his own, and his secret real-estate empire is sinking. He has no idea how to solve his financial problems until a sleazy private eye Saul Lynx approaches him with a job. Lynx offers Easy $200 to track down a former acquaintance of his, Elizabeth Eady, aka Black Betty. Betty a beautiful and sensual woman has vanished from her wealthy employer's home in Beverly Hills.

Easy's search for Betty will uncover a trail of chaos and murder. To make matters worse, Easy's psychopathic best friend Mouse is also out of prison determined to find and execute the man who betrayed him. However, this book is much more than a murder mystery; it is a journey into the heart of racial bigotry and the paradox that is the human race. The language is vibrant and moving:

On the bus there were mainly old people and young mothers and teenagers coming in late to school. Most of them were black people. Dark-skinned with generous features. Women with eyes so deep that most men can never know them. Women like Betty who'd lost too much to be silly or kind. And there were the children, like Spider and Terry T once were, with futures so bleak it could make you cry just to hear them laugh. Because behind the music of their laughing you knew there was the rattle of chains. Chains we wore for no crime; chains we wore for so long that they melded with our bones. We all carry them but nobody can see it-not even most of us. All the way home I thought about freedom coming for us at last. But what about all those centuries in chains? Where do they go when you get free?

This is not merely a fast paced and gripping mystery but a powerful story of one of the saddest aspects of American life. Mosley does not preach nor condemn, he merely presents us with a historically accurate account of an era in which this mystery story unfolds. I highly recommend this story.

The finest of the Easy Rawlins stories?.......2002-04-10

I don't generally like crime fiction. There's a sentence to alienate most of the people reading this review! However for some writers - the great ones - the genre they write in is irrelevent. It cannot be denied that Mosley is a great writer, who has shown equal facility in tough but politically and socially literate crime writing and also in witty and wise post-modern science-fiction.

Black Betty is a fine demonstration of his craft. His particular skill is in weaving the world into his tales. The mystery is well-constructed and satisfyingly tangled, featuring multiple murders, corruption and racial and class divisions. However the central plot is framed both by the atmosphere of early 1960s America with the rise of the civil rights movement confronting old prejudices, and by the dense web of family and social life within the families of ordinary, mainly (but not entirely) black, working class Americans.

In theory Easy Rawlins' role in the investigations in which he is involved is limited to where white men fear to tread - the black community. However the networks of corruption and deceit he uncovers inevitably take him outside this world, in this case into the bizarre and emtionally-stunted world of white land-owners and their complicated relationships with their black and latino servants, as well as a corrupt and racist police force and legal system.

Easy is also personally involved - Elizabeth Eady AKA Black Betty - the woman whose disappearance he is hired to investigate was a teenage crush of his, a woman who inspires obsession in many, which turns out to be her tragedy. At the same time, Easy has to contend with several other difficulties: the release of his psychotic - but often useful - friend, Mouse, from prison, bristling with anger and the need to revenge himself on the man who sent him down; the ongoing silence of his eldest adopted child Jesus, who has chosen not to speak as a result of the trauma and abuse from which Easy rescued him; the suspicious collapse of the real estate businesses in which he has invested his occasional earnings; and various other ongoing personal and social difficulties. Easy Rawlins has a well described and believable, if unconventional, family and a life beyond the crimes he is occasionally employed to solve. He is a fascinating character who has grown with successive novels; full of desire and anger but compassionate, wise and often painfully self-aware.

I would rate Black Betty as the best of the Easy Rawlins tales. What is particularly great about it is Easy's story of personal survival and compromise in an unfair world where a black man cannot sit back and enjoy what he has without someone trying to destroy it. Easy does get to the bottom of things, but it is at immense cost to all those involved including himself, and in the case of Mouse - well, as those who know the character will be aware that there is very little in the world that will stop him doing what he has set his mind on.

This is ultimately a tale cut about with sadness and rage, and a mighty fine and and jolting read it is too.

A Multi-layered Mystery.......2000-10-24

After reading (or rereading) many of the classic detective novels in the past few months, I have come to two conclusions. First, I read way too many detective novels. Secondly (and more importantly), in all truly great hardboiled detective stories, the actual mystery is secondary. Granted, a labyrinth plot that keeps one guessing is always a plus. But all the true greats of crime fiction (Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy et al.) have realized early one what has taken me some time to understand: It is not the plot, it is the world the story occurs in that is important. The finest mystery plot in the world means nothing if the reader does not believe the world presented actually exists, at least on the page.

I state this merely as a preamble to my main topic, the novel BLACK BETTY, by Walter Mosley. It is a good mystery. It has intrigue, deception, betrayal, racism, and murder. It is complex enough to demand a second visit. But, more important than the plot, Mosley has created the world of 1950's Los Angeles in such vivid and believable detail that you'd read the novel even if it were a mere travelogue.

BLACK BETTY marks the fourth appearance of Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, an unwilling investigator who is more concerned with providing his children with a good home than he is with solving a case. It is to this end that he accepts an offer of two hundred dollars to track down Elizabeth Eady, a sultress from his past who has gone missing. As Easy once again delves into the lives of others, he visits worlds he wishes to escape from, and worlds he wishes to join. He also realizes that there is no real difference between them.

Easy ranks up with Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade as one of the finest literary detectives. He is tough, resourceful, intelligent, and oddly eloquent. It's also good to see the return of Mouse, Easy's childhood friend/nightmare. Mouse is a killer, and is all the more terrifying for his believability. Like all of Mosley's characters, you get the impression that they have lives beyond the page, that they do not exist merely as foils for Easy.

But that is true of Easy's entire world. In a few simple, elegent sentences, Mosley can describe a character more vividly than most authors can do with pages of exposition. Their manners of speech, their beliefs, their dreams. Mosley can size up an individual like almost no one else can. Even minor characters, such as Ortiz and Jackson Blue, linger in the memory far longer than many lead characters of other novels.

Mosley's Easy stories, despite their being lumped into the sometimes simpleminded detective genre, are always more than they appear. Mosley embues his writings with a palpable sense of rage. The common, almost routine racism that Easy encounters every day gives the stories a compelling weight that his literary predecessor's sometimes lacked. It is a viewpoint that could overwhelm the story, but Mosley is far too skilled to let it happen. Even as Easy muses about Martin Luther King and "the young Irish president", he understands the difference between political rhetoric and day-to-day reality. Easy's world may be fictional on the surface, but it exists, and continues to exist all around us.

BLACK BETTY is a tremendous detective novel that works on many levels. It is a fine example of the detective genre. It is a perfectly realized world unto itself. It is an indictment of how little we have advanced in the past fifty years.

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A Girl and Her Gator

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A Girl and Her Gator
Sean Bryan
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
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ASIN: 1559707984

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Clairethe sister of the boy who one day woke up with a bunny on his headdiscovers that she too has a strange new condition: When she looks in the mirror, there is a gator in her hair! What is she to do? Panic? Run to Mother? Or, like her brother, learn to enjoy her new friend? With A GIRL AND HER GATOR Sean Bryan and Tom Murphy, the author and illustrator of A Boy and His Bunny, have once again worked their magic. In Claire, they have created an equally spunky and lovable character bound to delight and entertain young children and their parents.

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A Girl and Her Gator.......2007-08-30

This is my daughter's favorite book! Much better than the first in the series, "A Boy and His Bunny"

NJ Mom.......2007-05-31

What an adorable gift. I gave this to my daughter and just bought another one for a gift. Loved the colors and illustrations.

fun.......2007-01-10

We loved A Boy and His Bunny and so checked out a Girl and her Gator. These stories are just plain fun. The pictures are bright and entertaining; the story line is goofy; the words are fabulous. Highly recommend it.

Fun to Read!.......2006-11-21

My children love this book and I enjoy reading it to them. They ask me to read it quite often. And they love the beautiful pink and green colors of this book. I think any little girl would love to have this book.

Another winner!.......2006-03-22

My children adore A Boy and His Bunny by Bryan and Murphy and are equally, if not more so, entertained by A Girl and Her Gator! The illustrations are wonderful and the colors are beautiful. This is also a great gift for friends! This will be on the top of your child's favorite book list!!

A Year for the Gators: Florida Gators: 2006 BCS National Champions

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A Year for the Gators: Florida Gators: 2006 BCS National Champions
The Gainesville Sun
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ASIN: 1596702613

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Gators football fans can continue the celebration of their team's 2006 BCS championship in this dazzling full-color book. Through stories and photos from the pages of The Gainesville Sun the book takes an indepth look at the Gator's amazing season, while recapping their dominating 41-14 win over top-ranked Ohio State in the BCS championship game. A YEAR FOR THE GATORS Florida Gators - 2006 BCS National Champions is full of exciting full-color photos, taking fans through the great moments of the Gator's incredible season. Included are statistics and game recaps from The Gainesville Sun for all of the season's biggest games, including the early-season triumph at Tennessee, as well as complete coverage of the SEC championship game. In addition to complete game coverage, fantastic player profiles are included that feature the Gator's biggest stars and Coach Urban Meyer. The ultimate keepsake, this book will make a great gift for any fan of the national champion.

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Top-notch commemorative.......2007-04-08

Robbie Andreu's and Pat Dooley's articles from the fall of 2006 are reprinted here. With some excellent photos, many of which I had never seen before. The photos, along with Dooley's emotional pre-season article and his final recap of the game against "THE University with only 82 yards of offense" make this a worthwhile purchase for any Gator fan.

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Gator Pie
Louise Mathews
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead
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Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 0590758128

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Children's Choice book Club Edition from Scholastic Services. Color illustrations. A group of alligators attempt to split a pie so that everyone gets a piece.

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A cautionary tale
Fun book about alligators
A fun twist on the Little Red Hen
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Gator Gumbo: A Spicy-Hot Tale
Candace Fleming
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Old Monsieur Gator is very slow. He moves "slower than saw grass grows" and "slower than a snail with sore feet." He can no longer catch any of his tasty fellow bayou creatures to eat, "And--oh ho!--them critters sure know it." The possum, skunk, and otter taunt him, wiggling and sashaying just out of his reach. Finally, Gator gets hot (red hot) and hatches a crafty plan--he will make gumbo. When he asks who will help him, Little Red Hen-style, the creatures don't say "Not I," but "I ain't," (a reply more fitting for a Louisiana bayou). But when Gator finishes his okra and crawdad soup, and asks "Who' gonna help eat it?" the chorus chimes "Me! Me!" Gator agrees to let the otter, skunk, and possum take a sip, but when they lean over the pot, slurping and slipping, "Them animals go into the pot." A harsh fate for Gator's sassy tormenters? Perhaps, but revenge is downright tasty for Monsieur Gator.

If all this bayou cooking (albeit with characters from the book as ingredients) gets your mouth a-watering, a recipe for "Maman's Spicy-Hot Gumbo" adorns the back cover of the book. Sally Anne Lambert (of Barkus, Sly and the Golden Egg captures the expressions of the tortured old gator and the taunting bullies with great skill, and her use of color and composition is no less than exquisite. A spicy-hot read-aloud, straight from the bayou. (Ages 5 and older) --Karin Snelson

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A new take on The Little Red Hen -- Cajun style

Poor Monsieur Gator is getting old and is moving so slow he can't catch himself a taste of possum or otter, or even a whiff of skunk. Day after day those animals tease and taunt him until, finally, he decides to cook up some gumbo just like Maman used to make. But who will help him boil, catch, sprinkle, and chop? Certainly not rude Mademoiselle Possum, ornery Monsieur Otter, or sassy Madame Skunk. But when the gumbo is ready, they're more than eager to enjoy the result of Gator's hard work and as they run to get a taste - "Slurp! Slip! Plop! Them animals go into the pot." "Mmm-mmm," says Monsieur Gator. "Now, this is gumbo just like Maman used to make."

Illustrated with wit and whimsy, this mischievous tale will have young readers laughing out loud.

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Nice illustrations.......2006-11-10

This french speaking gator is old and cannot catch his meals any longer. He is teased by the other "critters". He decides to trick them by offering them a taster of the gumbo he finally makes. They fall in and the gator finally gets his stew. Very similiar to the Little Red Hen story only it has a HOT twist.

The only problem is that the language is difficult for some early readers.

A cautionary tale.......2006-04-02

This Cajun-style version of the little red hen has a real twist at the end of the story. There are wonderful rhythms and repeats that invite listeners to chant along with the story. Kids who are used to "happy, clappy" endings were open-mouth when has some of the characters come to a very bad end! I love cautionary tales!

Fun book about alligators.......2006-03-02

Very nice book, very fun, great characters, nice graphics and a high learning curve and this is better than Disneyland.

A fun twist on the Little Red Hen.......2005-09-11

Both my 3 year old son and my 7 year old cousin love this book so it covers a lot of age ground. You don't have to be good at accents to read this book because the wounderful choice of words turn any readers voice into "bayou speak". I've gotten several copies to give as gifts and in all a couple of pages have blurred type (obviously not intentional) so that is my only reservation in recommending it.

The Louisiana Rendition of The Little Red Hen.......2005-02-10

Candace Fleming takes the well-known story of "The Little Red Hen" and adds a southern twist by setting it in the Louisiana bayou and replacing the characters with swamp dwelling animals. French/Louisiana influence is apparent in the characters' names along with choice of cuisine - "gumbo." The theme of working hard to earn an end result is slightly skewed in this story with a suprise ending involving the predator. While we, as teachers, were able to connect this story to a familiar favorite, we felt that young children would need some background information on Louisiana in order to enjoy the book and fully understand the characters. This book is a cute but quirky read.

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Hungry Mr. Gator
Julie McLaughlin
Manufacturer: Legacy Publications Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0933101244

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Hungry Mr. Gator is a whimsical counting story for young children with authentic South Carolina lowcountry animals as characters. Mr. Gator patiently watches different animals around his swampy lake home, trying to decide which ones are going to be his tasty selection for lunch. Enchanting watercolor illustrations portray the natural setting of the animals' habitat.

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Florida Gators: 2006 National Champions
The Gainesville Sun
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