The Little Bayou Mermaid is a children's picture book told in verse about a mermaid named Aqualina who lives in the swampy lagoon. She becomes friends with a Cajun Boy named Remy when he untangles her fin from a fish net. She asks him to read his school books to her so she can learn about the outside world. When he sees her eyes light up with the new knowledge this makes him want to become a teacher. When summer is over he has to go to college far...