Cajun Night Before Christmas(r)

I'm just some White American who loves learning about and meeting people, so when I saw that there was a Cajun Night Before Christmas, I knew I needed to get it. Comparing and sharing traditions is one of the most intimate ways of learning about others (in my humble opinion), and I was overjoyed at the opportunity to experience a story I knew through the care and humor of a culture different from mine. Highly recommended- if I had kids or even adults who would tolerate me reading to them out loud in my life, I would be absolutely obnoxious in an annual Cajun Christmas reading.

This book I used in a Christmas theme when I student taught 3rd grade. They absolutley loved it. Not only was it funny but very very well written and entertaining. In fact, when I came back to visit them a week after I left, they made me read it again. Good spinoff of The Night Before Christmas.

I have had this book for almost twenty years, and every Christmas my friends beg me to read it to them with my Cajun accent. This is such a FUN book for children and adults, and it is written in the Cajun dialect so that it is easy to have a Cajun accent. I have never met anyone who didn't fall in love with this book! Buy it! You won't be sorry, and it will become a family heirloom for many generations to come.

Looking for a new way to view Santa Claus? Well, here is the book for you. This book takes a folklore view of Santa in Louisiana. The illustrations are warm, friendly and give the reader a glimpse on how Christmas is celebrated on the bayou. :)

My daughter received this book as a gift in 1977 when we lived in Louisiana and it has become a tradition to read it every Christmas (even though we left the South long ago). The characters are easy to relate to because we know the originals - and these are so clever. Just brush up on your accent before reading aloud.