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 pre-World War I homes, the Fire Station Museum, featuring the Don Meredith collection and the Nations Family Bird Egg Collection; the Cotton Belt Depot, The Bankhead Highway Trails and Visitor Center, Dupree Park Nature Preserve, Franklin County Courthouse, raised town plaza, and Majors-Parchman house. All along the tour, sounds and shadows suggest that someone has secretly joined the tour. Who is this mysterious follower? Readers will delight in searching for clues. The picture book provides an entertaining and educational story for young readers, with additional information about each historical site provided for older readers.

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 a camper. That’s when the fun and unexpected adventures begin! Mary Brooke Casad is the author of the popular “Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series,” detailing the travels of Texas’ most loved armadillo. Benjamin Vincent has been illustrating Bluebonnet’s adventures for more than 20 years.

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 possession was, you guessed it, Jim Bowie’s knife.

Enjoy this fanciful excursion into Texas history as Digger Diller tells Bluebonnet about his great, great grandfather’s eye-witness account of William Travis, Jim Bowie and the early Texas heroes who stood against Santa Anna for Texas’ independence.

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 once a working offshore rig, where people lived and drilled for oil beneath the sea. Since its opening 1997, the museum has taught kids about many products made from petroleum and how drilling platforms now out of service have become reefs. Towards the end of the museum tour, Bluebonnet hops aboard a departing shrimp boat with Red to see some offshore drilling rigs in action. After all, Bluebonnet is always ready for a new adventure!

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 to learn more, and before she can say “Boomtown, U.S.A.”, her nephews whisk her away to the Wast Texas Oil Museum for another adventure in history.

At the museum, the armadillos visit the towns of East Texas as they were in the 1930s, when oil was discovered. They venture below the surface of the earth to learn about how fossils created oil, witness oil gushers shooting high into the air, and feel the ground tremble beneath them as they experience first hand the excitement of the oil boom.

Bluebonnet at the East Texas Oil Museum is a wonderful introduction to the East Texas Oil Museum and makes an ideal souvenir or travel companion for young visitors and anyone curious about East Texas and the oil industry.

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 fun when you get to ride the roller coaster.

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 scientists and astronauts ask her to help them out with their next space shuttle mission.

Children will love the outlandish antics of the armadillo-turned-astrodillo as she suits up for the big flight. They will also learn about the space program, what it takes to become an astronaut, and the many exhibits and special events at the Johnson Space Center. Colorful and action-packed, the latest book in the Bluebonnet series introduces young readers to the high-tech world of space travel from the delightful point-of-view of Bluebonnet, the space-traveling armadillo.