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Overview

Who's Epossumondas? Why, he's his mama's and his auntie's sweet little patootie, that's who. He's also the silliest, most lovable, most muddleheaded possum south of the Mason-Dixon line!
Better choose your words wisely when he's around, 'cause otherwise you never know what you'll get. Epossumondas just might bring you a fist full of crumbs, or a soaking wet puppy, or a scruffy wad of bread—oh, you just wouldn't believe it!
Renowned storyteller Coleen Salley and Caldecott Honor illustrator Janet Stevens team up for this outrageous twist on the Southern story of the noodlehead who takes everything way too literally. (Or is that Epossumondas just pulling his mama's leg?)

A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.

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In a marvelously mixed-up tale by acclaimed storyteller Coleen Salley, with artwork by Tops & Bottoms illustrator Janet Stevens, poor little Epossumondas can't ever get things straight when bringing home goodies from his auntie. Mama gives him instructions on how to correctly carry such items as cake, butter, a puppy, and bread, but the small "noodlehead" takes her words too literally, treating the puppy like butter (keeping it cool in water), for example, and the bread like a puppy (he drags it home on a leash). Mama's finally had enough after some time, but when she leaves and tells Epossumondas to "be careful about stepping on those pies," the small "patootie" pounces "right in the middle of every one." This silly story is just the right medicine for anyone who takes life too seriously: Epossumondas is a sweet, harmless character who means no harm, and his well-intentioned mix-ups will send young readers into fits of giggles. With a lengthy storyteller's note about folktales, storytelling, and noodlehead stories in particular, this winsome tale with southern origins is sure to win over fans young and old. Matt Warner
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In this entertaining tale, Epossumondas, an ever cheerful possum clad in diapers, is his human mama's and auntie's "sweet little patootie." His doting auntie gives Epossumondas a series of gifts to take home, starting with a piece of cake, which he squishes. His mama explains that he should carry cake under his hat, so that's what he does when his aunt gives him butter. Each present leads to another silly misunderstanding that will have children laughing, pleased to know better than the main character.
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Foolish Jack is cast here as a pampered, over-mothered Louisiana possum in a refreshingly retold version by New Orleans storyteller Salley (Who's That Trippin' over My Bridge?). This familiar story takes on new silliness as the improbable possum-child interacts with his human mother. And what a mother (fans of Stevens's To Market, to Market will recognize her as the same model)! Stevens, in wickedly observant pencil and watercolor illustrations, characterizes the doting matriarch and her sister as matronly, doughy-cheeked ladies in cat-eye glasses and flowery dresses circa 1952. When the aunt sends cake home with Epossumondas, he scrunches it in his hand and ruins it. His mother chides him, "Oh, Epossumondas, you don't have the sense you were born with!" and advises him next time to carry cake on his head. When his auntie gives him butter, he unthinkingly follows his mother's advice regarding cake transport. "What you got, Epossumondas?" a raccoon asks, as the butter streams down the possum's face. "Butter," he replied. "Hmm. Don't look much like butter to me," Raccoon says drily. Salley narrates the series of mishaps with a storyteller's impeccable timing and a pleasing Southern patois that should inspire many spirited read-alouds. A note at book's end gives an overview of the tale's many incarnations all over the world. Ages 3-7. (Aug.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780152167486
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 8/28/2002
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Pages: 40
  • Sales rank: 207,804
  • Age range: 5 - 7 Years
  • Lexile: AD600L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 10.32 (w) x 10.82 (h) x 0.34 (d)

Meet the Author

COLEEN SALLEY was a professor of children's literature for thirty years and now travels widely as a professional storyteller. The old tale of Epaminondas is her trademark, and her new variation appears in print for the first time as Epossumondas. A native Southerner, she lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

JANET STEVENS is the author-illustrator of many popular and award-winning books for children, including the Caldecott Honor book Tops & Bottoms. She used her friend Coleen Salley as a character model in both Epossumondas and the ABBY Honor Book To Market, To Market. Ms. Stevens lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 13, 2004

    Fabulously Funny Yarn!!

    I have read this to Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classes and they LOVE this book!! It is a way to be silly with kids and discuss taking things too literally with them. If you want to see kids laugh really, really hard, read this book to them.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 1, 2004

    great kids book! and fun to read

    I love this book, we read it to the kids at the school I volunteer for and I just had to go buy it for my son. :) It's cute and it is a good story, funny and silly. Kids love this.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 11, 2002

    PLAYING POSSUM

    Louisiana-native Coleen Salley has been keeping the Southern oral storytelling tradition alive and well for thirty years, and here, for the first time, is her signature tale in picture book format. "Epossumondas" is her newest variation of the old "noodlehead story," originally about a human Epaminondas and his muddled-up mishaps. This time the protagonist takes the form of a foolish young possum, the "sweet little patootie" of his human mama and auntie who claim he "hasn't got the sense he was born with." It's a laugh-outloud tale for young and old.

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