Bluebonnet, everyone’s favorite itinerant armadillo, is on the road again! In this latest picture book by the Texas writer and illustrator team of Mary Brooke Casad and Benjamin Vincent, Bluebonnet visits her sister Irmadillo in Kilgore,Texas. There, she meets her four nephews—Wildcatter, Bradford, Hunt, and Lloyd—all named for aspects of the East Texas oil history. As the boys describe their namesakes, Bluebonnet learns how the East Texas Oil Field was discovered, and how it changed rural Texas into “Boomtown, U.S.A.” The armadillo boys take Aunt Bluebonnet on a trip to the East Texas Oil Museum where they experience firsthand how oil is produced, what the town was like in the 1930s when oil fever struck, and even what it feels like to drill for oil!

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.

about the author
A native of Louisiana, Ms. Casad received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University, and also studied at Harlaxton College in Grantham, England. Ms. Casad is director of mission for the United Methodist Church in the Dallas area, the first woman and layperson named to this position. Her husband, Dr. Victor E. Casad, is pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Farmers Branch, Texas. They have two sons. She is also the author of Bluebonnet at the Marshall Train Depot, Bluebonnet at the Texas State Capitol, and Bluebonnet at Johnson Space Center (pb).

about the illustrator
Benjamin Vincent is a resident of Dallas, Texas, and is past president of the Dallas Society of Illustrators.