It s Epossumondas's birthday, so Mama's whipping up his favorite biscuits. But she's plumb out of sody sallyraytus! (That's "baking soda "to all you Yankees.) Everybody knows you can t make big, fluffy biscuits without sody. One by one, Baby Gator, Auntie, and Mama scoot to the store to fetch some. But when no one comes back, it s up to Epossumondas to run out and see what s what--until he runs smack into a great, huge, ugly Louisiana snapping turtle! "

Illustrated by: Janet Stevens