This story of how Clovis Crawfish and his friends help Bertile Butterfly before her flight south for the winter with the other monarch butterflies. Clovis throws a going-away party, but it is interrupted by a cool north wind that causes a pinecone falling from a tree to pin Bertile's wing to the ground. The friends spring into action to help save her wing so she can be on her way. This charming story is now available for the first time in full color.

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Clovis Crawfish and all his friends return in a new bayou tale. Michelle Mantis, an ugly old insect with an enormous appetite, visits the swamp home of Clovis and his friends. Her voracious appetite alarms Clovis's friends, as Michelle eats and eats until she can scarcely move. But when Michelle tumbles into the mud, Clovis must rally the other swamp creatures to help.

The book includes a song with lyrics in English and French, and a pronunciation guide for Cajun expressions. The colorful illustrations by Scott Blazek bring all the bayou denizens to life.

With a combined total of 56,000 copies in print, the nine books chronicling the adventures of Clovis Crawfish are perennial favorites in Louisiana and elsewhere....

Bertile Butterfly's baby does not look like a butterfly. It looks like a worm instead! The bayou friends discover the growth stages of a caterpillar in this new full-color edition....

Friendship is the underlying subject as the beauty and dangers of bayou life are depicted in this, the very first volume in the landmark Clovis Crawfish series, now in full color for the first time....