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In this Texas-style adaptation of a traditional folktale, a tarantula, bluebird, and horned toad refuse to help an armadillo prepare a batch of chili but nevertheless expect to eat it when it is ready.
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2005-2006 North Carolina Children's Book Award Master List2007 Arizona Young Reader Award Picture Book Master List2005 Winner, Storytelling World AwardChildren's Books Top Picks, Southwest Books of the Year 20042005 Texas Library Association's 2 x 2 Reading ListA blue norther's a-blowing', and Miss Billie Armadilly is hankering to make a pot of chili! Only she needs to fix it all by herself because Tex the tarantula, Mackie the bluebird, and Taffy the horned toad are too busy to lend a hand. Well, she'll eat it all by herself, too! But then the smell of chili cooking in the cold night brings her friends one by one back to Miss Billie's door. What's a lady armadillo to do?
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