Alligator Sue

"All you can do is be who you is."

Suzanne Marie Sabine Chicot Thibodeaux (called Sue for short) lives on a houseboat deep in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Swamp. One lazy summer afternoon when the air grows heavier than a catfish's bath towel, a hurricane swoops Sue up — only to drop her like a hot patate into the swamp below. Sue finds herself nose-to-snout with a queen-sized, prickly-backed mama Alligator. Luckily, Mama Coco is no ordinary gator. She invites Sue into her family and teaches her all she knows. Sue tries hard to be an alligator; still, every once in a while, she recalls a wisp of a familiar song and begins to wonder: Who am I — a Gator or a Girl?

How this spirited heroine claims her identity and her name — Alligator Sue — makes a funny, affecting, and wise tale, illustrated with irresistible joie de vivre.

• Author
• Sharon Arms Doucet, Anne Wilsdorf

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 40

• Publisher
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-30218-4

• EAN
• 9780374302184

• Genres
• childrens

• Release date
• 2003