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Mardi Gras almost didn't come this year

Lala, Babyboy, and their parents struggle to cope with the loss of their home to Hurricane Katrina, but find joy again in the celebration of Mardi Gras. Includes facts about Hurricane Katrina and glossary.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Price, Kathy (Kathy Z.), 1957- (Author)
Other Authors:	Williams, Carl Joe (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2022]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Loss (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction. Families > Louisiana > Juvenile fiction. Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Juvenile fiction. Carnival > Louisiana > New Orleans > Juvenile fiction. Carnival > Juvenile fiction. Mardi Gras > Juvenile fiction. Louisiana > Juvenile fiction. Family life > Louisiana > Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction > Juvenile. Picture books.
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Summary:	Lala, Babyboy, and their parents struggle to cope with the loss of their home to Hurricane Katrina, but find joy again in the celebration of Mardi Gras. Includes facts about Hurricane Katrina and glossary.
Physical Description:	48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 32 cm.
Audience:	Ages 4-8.
ISBN:	9781534444256 1534444254
Author Notes:	Kathy Z. Price made her debut in the children's book field with the publication of The Bourbon Street Musicians . She is a Cave Canem Fellow and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Kathy was awarded an Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship with the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and received a scholarship award for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Visit her at KathyZPrice.com. Carl Joe Williams was born in uptown New Orleans. At fourteen, he was accepted into The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) where he received his formal training. Williams's work has been displayed in several venues throughout the United States, including "Journeys," an installation at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, and Williams's "Sculptural Trees" installation on the median of Veterans Boulevard. Visit him at CarlJoeWilliams.com.