• Age: 6 to 9
• Grade: 1 to 4
• Reading age: 6 to 9

Twins Mia and Matt can't wait to get to their uncle's summer cottage and find out what animal will be the star of their vacation. Uncle Orlando is the best animal trainer in the country for movies and television. Last time, they helped him train a group of pigs to sing.
This year turns out to be a challenge get an alligator, the slowest and laziest animal on the planet, to dance! All Nestor the Gator will do for Orlando is bathe in the sun. Will the twins get bitten, or will Matt's breakdancing skills help Nestor learn some moves?
Suddenly, a strange thing happens the gator starts making a sculpture out of mud and grass. What is he up to? Mia and Matt are in for a surprise! The alligator turns out to be female, and soon thirty baby alligators, nesting in the sculpture, hatch from their eggs.

ANNIE LANGLOIS has been involved with children's literature for more than ten years, first as a librarian and then as the art director for La courte echelle. She recently completing a doctorate in children's literature at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University in Paris.

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Jimmy Beaulieu was born on the Île d’Orléans, Québec, in 1974, he has lived in Montreal since 1998. He’s done pretty much all the work one can do surrounding comics. Publisher (mécanique générale), bookstore employee (Pantoute, Fichtre!), critic (Radio-Canada), expo manager, translator, book designer, magazine director, illustrator for hire, teacher (cégep du Vieux-Montreal) and, of course, author and artist. Back in the nineties, he made the hip kids dance on the music he composed with machines. Suddenly Something Happened, his first book in English, was published by Conundrum in 2010.

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Langlois provides young readers with a positive example to emulate: a young girl whose commitment to a project is ultimately achieved and admired by loved ones. ....Mia, Matt and the Lazy Gator bestows young readers with the hopefulness to reach their desired goals. I would recommend Langlois' early reader for both school and public libraries. Recommended.

CM Magazine

"Though the design and layout suggest a young target audience, the advanced vocabulary (writhe, posterity and discreetly all appear on a single page) as well as the romantic focus -- sweethearts, smooches and spooning all make an appearance -- will make this one a hard sell to the early elementary crowd."

Kirkus Reviews (U.S.)

...an easy read for a student needing some action and picture support to keep interested. Recommended.

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