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Canadian Authors We Love: Dennis Lee
February 16th, 2012
By Blake Eligh
Vintage Alligator Pie cover from Wikipedia
Alligator pie! Alligator pie! If I don’t get some… well, I bet you can fill in the rest.
Canadian parents who were kids in the ’70s grew up on books like Alligator Pie, Jelly Belly and Garbage Delight by Toronto author and poet Dennis Lee.
The books were packed with Canadian place names (“In Kamploops, I’ll eat your boots.”) and bouncy nonsense rhymes that many kids can recite from memory.
Lee has a new book of poems in the works, and recently gave a preview to a lucky group of his toughest critics at Small Print Toronto’s first Children’s Story Jam.
Melvis and Elvis is due in fall 2013. In the meantime, check out the slideshow and interview with Lee over on our sister site, Quill & Quire.
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