World-famous storyteller and Louisiana native Coleen Salley was a professor of children's literature for 30 years. Her colorful Epossumondas books have been called "a treasure" by The New York Times. One day, the young possum named Epossumondas asks his Mama, "Why don't I have hair on my tail?" Mama knows why, oh yes she does, and her story sure goes back a long way- all the way to Epossumondas' great-greatgrandpa, Papapossum, and his growly 'ol stomach. "This laughable stretch of the imagination . may be even more entertaining than the rollicking Epossumondas."-Booklist