Mardi Gras in Alabama! - by Karyn W Tunks (Hardcover)

About the Book

Bouncing rhymes and lively illustrations capture the unique flavor of Carnival season along Alabama's Gulf Coast. Young Folly brings readers along as he explores favorite Mobile-area traditions in this entertaining and educational adventure for beginning readers. A glossary of people, places, and things completes the introduction to the most colorful season of the year.

Book Synopsis

Follow Folly as he celebrates Mardi Gras in Alabama! Hang on tight; he wants to see every parade in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Folly has a front-row seat as he rides with kings and queens and tags along with Joe Cain. From catching throws with the crowd to joining in with the marching bands, Folly is a part of all the festivities. With bouncing rhyme and lively illustrations, author Karyn Tunks and illustrator Alexis Braud capture the unique flavor of Carnival season along Alabama's Gulf Coast. Highlighting the best of the local revelry, Folly brings young readers along as he explores favorite Mobile-area traditions. A glossary of people, places, and things completes the introduction to the most colorful season of the year. So come along and join the fun as we celebrate Mardi Gras in Alabama in this informative picture book for locals--and those who wish they were!

About the Author

Karyn is a professor of education at the University of South Alabama, where she teaches courses in early literacy and children's literature. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in the classroom and has taught students at every level, from preschool through college. Dr. Tunks has written four books for early childhood teachers and celebrates her adopted home state of Alabama by writing picture books, including Jubilee! and USS Alabama: Hooray for the Mighty A! She lives in Fairhope, Alabama, with her family and their three-legged cat. Once upon a time, on a slow-moving bayou far, far away from everything, there lived a girl who loved words and pictures. She grew up with books and drawing pads and drew pictures of the places she knew. One day she left that bayou to embark on great adventures and learn about the world. When she returned it was with a family, her own children, and a dream to tell the stories of her bayou. Alexis Braud is a Cajun native, rambler, and eccentric. With her books and art she celebrates the things that deeply matter to our lives here in Louisiana. A graduate of Nicholls State University, she lives with her books, drawings, dreams and family along Bayou Lafourche, the same bayou on which she grew up. Find Alexis online at www.fablepainter.com.