The Laughing Lady is a fantasy adventure for children age 6-12 years old.

Florence lives in the French Quarter. Her dearest friend is her pet — a wise-cracking bird named Signor Cockatoo. The dreadful Laughing Lady kidnaps Signor Cockatoo and takes him into the spooky Fun House where she lives. Why? Does it have something to do with Boss Bones, the skeleton she’s going to marry?

Florence follows the Laughing Lady into the Fun House. Wild, scary, but always fun! Can Florence save her pet?

The Laughing Lady is brimming with full-color illustrations and features original music written and recorded in New Orleans.

French Quarter Fables sold like hot cakes. So, there was nothing to do, but issue a second volume.

French Quarter Fables Volume II is a totally new collection of delightful tales! It doesn’t matter which volume you start with. Once you have one, you’ll want the other. They’re habit-forming!

Little animals wearing clothes. Hard to resist in their bittersweet comic struggles.

These fables are, in a sense, Dalt Wonk’s love letter to the French Quarter — his home for over 40 years. The animals, flowers and insects are almost all Quarter denizens: a frog in his courtyard lily pond, a rat in the stone riprap on the levee, a roach in the kitchen of a restaurant. They call to mind people you know, difficulties you’ve faced.

A few Fables tell stories of exotic animals (like a seal or a hippo) in far-off lands. But all were written in the French Quarter and inspired by its singular, suggestive atmosphere.

Fables are one of the most ancient ways of talking about life. French Quarter Fables show how fresh, original, and entertaining they still can be.