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Alligator Pie (Collector's Edition)

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Dennis Lee won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1972 for his poetic meditation on Canadian identity in Civil Elegies, but he made perhaps his most enduring contribution to Canadian nationalism two years later with a short collection of near-nonsense rhymes written for a much younger set. Alligator Pie, which remains the classic Canadian bedtime book, is written as if Mother Goose had the Latin name Branta canadensis, from William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "loved his mother like anything," to Trois-Rivières, which, of course, rhymes with "eat you hair."

Language: English

Pages: 64

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Key Porter Books Ltd

Release: May 01, 2001

ISBN: 1552633381

ISBN 13: 9781552633380

Alligator Pie (Collector's Edition)

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Dennis Lee won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1972 for his poetic meditation on Canadian identity in Civil Elegies, but he made perhaps his most enduring contribution to Canadian nationalism two years later with a short collection of near-nonsense rhymes written for a much younger set. Alligator Pie, which remains the classic Canadian bedtime book, is written as if Mother Goose had the Latin name Branta canadensis, from William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "loved his mother like anything," to Trois-Rivières, which, of course, rhymes with "eat you hair."

Language: English

Pages: 64

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Key Porter Books Ltd

Release: May 01, 2001

ISBN: 1552633381

ISBN 13: 9781552633380

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