Marvelous Cornelius : Hurricane Katrina and the spirit of New Orleans / by Phil Bildner ; illustrations by John Parra.
Material type:
TextPublisher: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2015]Description: 38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781452125787
- 1452125783
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Community Helpers | Bildner Phil | Available | 33111008070431 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In New Orleans, there lived a man who saw the streets as his calling, and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down another and everyone danced along. The old ladies whistled and whirled. The old men hooted and hollered. The barbers, bead twirlers, and beignet bakers bounded behind that one-man parade. But then came the rising Mississippi--and a storm greater than anyone had seen before. In this heartwarming book about a real garbage man, Phil Bildner and John Parra tell the inspiring story of a humble man and the heroic difference he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
A man known as the "Trashcan Wizard" sings and dances his way through the French Quarter in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean, until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly causes him to lose his spirit.