With 26 Instagram-style photos accompanied by sharp and witty rhyming couplets, this sturdy abecedarian board book is baby’s first glimpse at the world they will one day grow up to inhabit—a world ...
If a country's large statues tell something about who they are as a people, what do Canada's large and weird roadside attractons say about us?
• The Hockey Stick and Puck in Duncan, BC
• The Tin ...
I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow is the story of Jonathan Goldstein’s journey to find some great truth on his road to forty.
In a series of wonderfully funny stories, the host of CBC’s WireTap recounts ...
If you can imagine it, somewhere there's probably a law against it. Laugh out loud over some of Canada's strangest laws -- but not too loudly, or you might get a ticket: * Until 2002 in BC, you couldn't ...
Those who love Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies or Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children will adore Jim Westergard’s darkly comic portraits. He illustrates each nursery rhyme twice. First, ...
Canadian cultural icon Stephen Leacock was as wise and witty as he was prolific, and as sharp as he was humane. A professor of political economy, author, and social critic, Leacock has long been considered ...
If you like your comic strip characters cute and cuddly, you’ll hate ‘Dry Shave’. ‘Dry Shave’ cracks open a hardboiled world of laconic lowlifes, pugnacious palookas, shiftless grifters and ...