Bluebonnet the Armadillo

from Pelican Publishing With curiosity as her guide, Bluebonnet, the most travelled armadillo in Texas, leaves her home in the Hill Country for a visit to Dinosaur Valley State Park. At the park, Bluebonnet’s adventure begins when she decides to explore what looks like a burrow in the ground. Inside the burrow, much to Bluebonnet’s… [Continue Reading]

This third in the series takes Bluebonnet to Dallas for the annual fall festivities. She has a surprise visit to the Cotton Bowl during the Texas vs. Oklahoma football game. There she meets a rabbit named Joe Bob from east Texas. They discover that the State Fair can be scary if you get lost, but… [Continue Reading]

from Pelican Publishing “Texas, our Texas, all hail the mighty state!” sings Bluebonnet, the armadillo, as she begins the Texas State Song on the grounds of the state capitol in Austin. She soon meets Mac, a mockingbird, which happens to be the state bird of Texas. Mac offers to give Bluebonnet the tour of the… [Continue Reading]

Bluebonnet, whose home was in the nearby Hill Country of Texas, paid a long awaited visit to the Alamo. To her surprise she met another armadillo. His name was Digger Diller, and he lived in a burrow under the Alamo. In fact, his family had lived there since the great battle in 1836. Their prized… [Continue Reading]

The travelling Texas armadillo, Bluebonnet is on the road again! This time, her travels take her to Kilgore, Texas, the home of one of the largest oild fields in the world. As soon as she arrives, Bluebonnet meets her four nephews –Wildecatter, Bradford, Hunt, and Lloyd__who tell her about their oil-industry namesakes. Bluebonnet is eager… [Continue Reading]

Bluebonnet is off to visit Mount Vernon, Texas in this tenth book of the Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure series. When she arrives on the Daphne Prairie, she meets Dandy Don, a short-eared owl named for Mount Vernon’s favorite native son, the late Don Meredith. The two nocturnal creatures take a night-time tour of historical sites, including… [Continue Reading]

Although many armadillos reside in the Texas Hill Country, this is the story of a very special one named Bluebonnet. Dubbed “everyone’s favorite armadillo” by “Texas Highways” magazine, Bluebonnet is nurtured by her armadillo family until it’s time to leave the burrow. When she discovers a camp by the Guadalupe River, she longs to be… [Continue Reading]

Bluebonnet explores the Ocean Star Museum in Galveston, Texas. To discover facts about the off shore oil system, she secretly follows a school group touring the museum. She learns about life on the drilling rig, offshore history, and rig safety through the tour guide and knowledgeable pelican, Red. Bluebonnet learns that the museum itself was… [Continue Reading]

Bluebonnet, the travelling Texas armadillo, arrives in the Marshall, Texas, town square early one morning. She sees the beautiful lights from Marshall’s “Wonderland of LIghts” festival, but it is not the festival that Blubonnet has come to see. Here curiosity has brought her to Marshall in search of the historic Marshall Train Depot. Just as… [Continue Reading]

Bluebonnet, everyone’s favorite Texas armadillo, is about to take a trip that will elevate the reputation of armadillos to new heights and altitudes! She’s blasting off on the space shuttle to become the first armadillo to attempt a space walk. She and her sister Normadillo are touring the Johnson Space Center in Houston when the… [Continue Reading]