On Mardi Gras Day
- ISBN-10
- 0803714424
- ISBN-13
- 9780803714427
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / General
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Dial Books for Young Readers
- Author
- Fatima Shaik
Description
Two African-American children participating in the traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration see such sights as the Zulu and Rex parades, enjoying the songs, bright costumes, and gigantic floats. By the author of The Jazz of Our Street.
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