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Epossumondas Plays Possum
By Salley, Coleen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-15206-420-4
- Publisher
- Harcourt
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2009
K-Gr 4 In this series, a diapered possum child with a human mama reenacts Southern folktales with flair and gusto. Here, Mama warns the little guy to stay out of the swamp, where the scary loup-garou awaits. Distracted by a pretty butterfly, Epossumondas enters the swamp anyway. He never meets the werewolf, but he encounters one dangerous predator after another. Luckily, instinct kicks in and he plays possum, thus being r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2010
Salley's storytelling remains peerless in this fourth tale of the adorable little possum, whose mama is the spitting image of the author, who died in 2008. Comfortably garrulous as ever, Mama warns Epossumondas about the swamp: "Something's in there just waiting for little possums like you...the loup-garou...with its big ugly claws!" Epossumondas isn't naughty; he just forgets, while chasing a butterfly, and soon he's meeting ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Mama warns Epossumondas about a loup-garou in the swamp. But Epossumondas forgets, and soon he's meeting the swamp's fearsom...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
