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Yvette Landry

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Yvette Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, not far from the levees of the Atchafalaya Basin. State of Louisiana’s 2013 and 2019 Music Ambassador, former Director of Louisiana Folk Roots Summer Cajun & Creole Music Kids Camp, and recently inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, Landry strives to bring cultures and traditions together through stories and songs. She is the award-winning author of The Ghost Tree, L’Arbre Revenant, Madame Grand Doigt, Taking the World by Storm…A Conversation with the Godfather of Swamp Pop, and The Wild Girl of Catahoula.

Schedule

12:30 pm to 1:15 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent C
Swamps, Secrets, and Scallywags: Middle Grade Louisiana Adventures
C.P. Landry, The Legend of Awful Art and The Watchmen
Yvette Landry and Cullen Bernard, The Wild Girl of Catahoula
with moderator Aimee Ardonne
(ages 8 to 14)

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

The Wild Girl of Catahoula

Every Sunday, Mike and Yvette could be found sitting on the porch listening to Pop recount stories of growing up near the Catahoula swamp. Tall tales of creatures that could only live in nightmares…an old hag with long, boney fingers, a tree that comes to life, and a wild girl who keeps “toe-kens” from her human encounters. Tall tales, yes, and none of them true…right?!

Yet when the family outing to visit Tante Nana, deep in the backwoods of Catahoula goes awry, Yvette soon discovers that strange things happen where the black trees grow.