Music of the Swamp
Music of the Swamp

Author: Lewis Nordan

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 1992-01-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1565127838

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“This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —Southern Living Lewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin’s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: “The Delta is filled up with death”; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. An ALA Notable Book Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award

Swamp Song
Swamp Song

Author: Helen Ketteman

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780761455639

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When Gator starts tappin his toes, all the swamp animals sing to his beat

Bedtime at the Swamp
Bedtime at the Swamp

Author: Kristyn Crow

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2008-07-22

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0060839511

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Splish splash rumba-rumba bim bam boom! It's bedtime at the swamp—except somebody's not ready. Somebody's still splashing in the water and the mud. Is there a monster on the loose? Kristyn Crow has taken every child's worst nightmare and transformed it into a frolic through swampland. With funny illustrations and a catchy refrain, this story won't scare little monster too much before bedtime.

Swamp Pop
Swamp Pop

Author: Shane K. Bernard

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780878058754

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A search for the sources and sounds of an often overlooked sister genre of Cajun and zydeco music

In the Swamp by the Light of the Moon
In the Swamp by the Light of the Moon

Author: Frann Preston-Gannon

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1787416364

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A little frog is singing to himself in the swamp one night. His song doesn't seem complete, so he invites other animals to join in. Nothing sounds right until the littlest voice joins the song - that of a tiny firefly. A wonderfully illustrated picture book with the important message that small voices need to be heard too.

Deep in the Swamp
Deep in the Swamp

Author: Donna M. Bateman

Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1430129948

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With the rhythm of the familiar poem "Over in the Meadow", this vibrant book introduces animals native to the Okefenokee Swamp, and highlights much of the flora and fauna that is recognizable in swamps and bayous elsewhere. Colorful, detailed illustrations and additional facts round out this appealing, rhyming exploration of a fascinating eco-system.

Swamp Song
Swamp Song

Author: Ron Larson

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780813013558

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Florida has more swamps and marshes than any other state except Alaska. One-third of it is covered with cypress domes, wet prairies, mangrove swamps, sawgrass glades, pitcher plant savannahs, and other wetlands. Swamps in Florida are the last refuge of panthers, wood storks, black bears, and many rare plants such as the ghost orchid and hand fern. In this intimate account of a world of biological richness, Ron Larson offers everyone from bird watchers and canoeists to botanists and policy makers an introduction to Florida's forested wetlands.

King of the Swamp
King of the Swamp

Author: Catherine Emmett

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-08-20

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1471181715

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A striking and unique story perfect for little people interested in climate awareness and looking after nature. McDarkly lives quietly all on his own, growing orchids in his dank swamp, until one day his peace is disturbed by an arrogant king who wants to turn the swamp into a roller-skate park. McDarkly has ten days to prove that the swamp isn't damp and dark, but an enchanted world. Can he do it, or will he risk losing his home forever?

Lightning Song
Lightning Song

Author: Lewis Nordan

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 1998-09-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781565122208

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Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it's true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. But up to the day Uncle Harris moves in, life looks like it's right out of a Walt Disney movie. No wonder the llamas greet each morning with a song. Uncle Harris arrives in a sports car, full of funny stories and new ideas. He manages to persuade Leroy's straitlaced parents to join him for cocktails in the evening. He sets up a pretty grand bachelor pad in the Dearman attic, with a telephone, a TV set, and a stack of Playboy magazines. He is, you might say, Romance itself. Once Uncle Harris moves in, life on the llama farm takes on an entirely different flavor. Leroy discovers those magazines. Electricity fills the Dearman house. Equilibrium tilts, conversation trails off, the atmospheric pressure twists--and lightning strikes. Leroy starts seeing things he's never seen before, like the very gifted baton-twirling teacher, and his world changes forever. Not since PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT has a novel looked so directly, hilariously, and bittersweetly at the heartbreak of puberty.

Sugar Among the Freaks
Sugar Among the Freaks

Author: Lewis Nordan

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 1996-01-05

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1565128435

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Introduction by Richard Howorth and foreword by the author. The incomparable Lewis Nordan's first two collections of short fiction--WELCOME TO THE ARROW-CATCHER FAIR and THE ALL-GIRL FOOTBALL TEAM--originally published in 1983 and 1986, have long been out of print in all editions. Collectors' items, these two books are now almost impossible for Nordan fans to find anywhere.To rectify that, Algonquin is delighted to announce a selection of fifteen of the best stories from the two books, newly arranged and introduced by fellow Mississippian, bookseller Richard Howorth, and with a foreword by the author. Critics have called Lewis Nordan's fiction "extraordinary" and "marvelous" and "stunning" and "scorching" and "story-telling genius." The selected stories show that genius in the making. "Characters that people the South hobble and dance across the pages of his short stories."--United Press International; "Delightfully eccentric situations and colorful language add up to a work that is even stronger than WOLF WHISTLE."--Library Journal.