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9781589803589
Bluebonnet, everyone's favorite itinerant armadillo, is on the road again! In this latest picture book by the Texas writer and illustrator team of Mary Brooke Casad and Benjamin Vincent, Bluebonnet visits her sister Irmadillo in Kilgore,Texas.There, she meets her four nephewsoWildcatter, Bradford, Hunt, and Lloyd, all named for aspects of the East Texas oil history. As the boys describe their namesakes, Bluebonnet learns how the East Texas Oil Field was discovered, andhow it changed rural Texas into "Boomtown, U.S.A." The armadillo boys take Aunt Bluebonnet on a trip to the East Texas Oil Museum where they experience firsthand how oil is produced, what the town was like in the 1930s when oilfever struck, and even what it feels like to drill for oil! Bluebonnet at the East Texas Oil Museum is a wonderful introduction to the East Texas Oil Museum and makes an ideal souvenir or travel companion for young visitors and anyone curious about East Texas and the oil industry.Casad, Mary Brooke is the author of 'Bluebonnet at the East Texas Oil Museum ' with ISBN 9781589803589 and ISBN 1589803582.
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