Clovis Crawfish and the Big Betail

When a big bEtail (big animal) intrudes into the swampland on a gloomy day, the bayou critters are fearful. The big bEtail is Andrew Armadillo from Texas. A huge creature with a hard shell, cowboy boots, and thick-lensed spectacles, Andrew at first frightens our bayou friends with his strange accent and booming voice. Unknowingly, this stranger destroys Clovis Crawfish's mudhouse. Clovis tries to defend his territory by confronting this immense animal. Rene Rainfrog, Denis Dirt Dauber, and the others scamper out of sight when the big bEtail begins to speak. As Bertile Butterfly flies away, she is trapped in a thornbush. Andrew, protected by his hard shell and propped up on his long tail, rescues Bertile.Illustrator Scott Blazek is a Lutheran minister and an accomplishedfreelance artist, winning awards for poster designs for several Louisianafestivals. Illustrator Scott R. Blazek resides in Clovis, New Mexico. He hasillustrated half of the books in the Clovis Crawfish series, and he won a $2,500 prize from the U.S. Mint for designing a five-dollargold coin featuring James Madison for their Bill of Rights Commemorative Coinsset. Also available in hardcover.Fontenot, Mary Alice is the author of 'Clovis Crawfish and the Big Betail' with ISBN 9780882896892 and ISBN 088289689X.