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Artell, Mike and Jim Harris.

Petite Rouge A Cajun Red Riding Hood. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2001.

This book gives a brief history of the Cajun people and a glossary of cajun terms.

In this Cajun version of "Little Red Riding Hood," the big bad gator is no match for a sharp young duck and her quick-thinking cat.

In this Cajun version of "Little Red Riding Hood," the big bad gator is no match for a sharp young duck and her quick-thinking cat.

When her grand-mère comes down wit' de flu, this Cajun Little Red knows what she has to do.

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With her witty cat, TeJean, she sets off in a pirogue to bring Grand-mère some gumbo.

The story is a variation of Red Riding Hood with an alligator as the “wolf” and a duck as “Petit Rouge”. The setting takes place in a swamp/bayou and Petit Rouge is delivering cajun food to her grandmother (gumbo and boudin).

In the end, Petit Rouge and her cat, TeJean, outsmart the alligator, Claude, by using hot sauce on the boudin (sausage) that they feed to him. The hot sauce sends Claude into the swamp desperately trying to get rid of the fire in his mouth.

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Claude swears off eating others; he believes they are too hot to eat.

The book takes place in a cajun swamp with cat tails and lily pads. The swamp contains frogs, turtles, mice and alligators. The food is an introduction to cajun food and terms: gumbo, boudin, file and