How to Promenade with a Python (and Not Get Eaten)

In this hilarious non-fiction chapter book series,a savvy cockroach shares wise tips and tricks to surviving an encounter with a charming predator who may (or may not) want to be your friend. Celeste is a cockroachand everyone knows that cockroaches are survivorsso who better to give advice on surviving an encounter with a polite predator? Everyone also knows that taking a moonlit promenade with a deadly reticulated python (named Frank) is a very bad idea. But Celeste loves very bad ideasand she is willing to put your life on the line to prove herself right! Need to stop a python from swallowing you head-first? Wear a lamp shade as a hat! Want to speed up a three-hundred-pound snake? Try roller skates! What’s the perfect light snack for a python? A chicken! Using her superior pythonine knowledgeCeleste comes up with various strategies and solutions — many dangerousmost absurdbut all based on the biology of pythons. MeanwhileFrank is hatching his own plans. Rachel Poliquin has created a delightfully preposterous premise thatcombined with Kathryn Durst’s hilarious illustrationswill have readers laughing out loud as they learn about python biology and hunting behavior.