Books with author Sharlene Nelson

Down Yonder on the Bayou contains three exciting short stories, with each story having its own beginning and ending. The setting is south Louisiana, down in Cajun country. The main characters are Petro and Dudro Bolepean, two little Cajun brothers. All three stories have some Cajun dialect and a few Cajun names. The book also has a vocabulary listing of some Cajun dialect and a few Cajun names.

A Giggle and a Wiggle Time is a collection of whimsical poems written to delight children. There are fifty-seven poems in the collection, with each poem illustrated in color.The poems are about animals, ants, a butterfly, a flea, a frog, a kite, a pear, a rat, a squirrel, a toad, a tree, a turtle, a violin, a watch, a worm, a young girl, an alligator, bees, birds, bugs, children, fish, flowers, kings, leaves, springtime, and the sea. The age level of A Giggle and a Wiggle Time was written for four-year-olds to eight-year-olds.

An excellent introduction to Native American studies, Indians of the Americas weaves together the people, culture, traditions, crafts, food, history, and struggle for survival of some of the first groups to call America home. Fascinating and comprehensive, each book in the series draws from primary source materials as well as historical archives to address the topics most frequently covered in social studies and American history curricula.