Call number
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Collection
Genres
Publication
Knopf Books for Young Readers (1992)
Description
A boy learns that the truth is often stretched on the Bayou Clapateaux, and gets the chance to tell his own version of a bayou tale when he goes fishing.
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User reviews
LibraryThing member Peterson10
Children love this story & it is great to use a teaching tool in the classroom. You can teach exaggeration or in math the idea of anytime you multiply by 10 you just add a zero, anytime you add by 100 you add two zeros, etc, etc.
LibraryThing member Arianna21
Primary or Intermediate
Genre: Folktale- This story was a story within a story. There was a folktale within this story about the place that the boy was at so I decided that this was a folktale about that place. The story was that weird things happen at that place.
Plot: Person vs. Nature. Even though
Genre: Folktale- This story was a story within a story. There was a folktale within this story about the place that the boy was at so I decided that this was a folktale about that place. The story was that weird things happen at that place.
Plot: Person vs. Nature. Even though
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you don't know if the boy made up his story or not, the animals of the pond and town continued to terrorize the boy in order to get a piece of his one million fish. Show Less
LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
Strange things do happen on the Bayou Clapateaux. And even children, if their imaginations are as bright and lively as the illustrations in this book, can come up with some pretty good whoppers to share with the menfolk on a lazy afternoon.
Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Picture Book — 1996)
Junior Library Guild Selections (Outstanding Book)
CCBC Choices (1992)
ISBN
0679906924 / 9780679906926