Frog Fables & Beaver Tales
Author | : Stanley Burke |
Publisher | : Lorimer |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0888620489 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780888620484 |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Earnest and industrious Beavers, funloving but discontented Frogs, a Lobster named Lugubrious J. Standfast and a wonderful Frog leader are some of the characters in this mythical tale about a Swamp named Canada. This delightfully illustrated and satirically sharp review of Canadian history in the late 1960s and early 1970s features some familiar faces--Lester B. Pearson, Richard Nixon, Rene Levesque, the immaculate chief-frog (chief beaver?) Pierre Trudeau--evolved slightly to survive in Swamp conditions. Frog Fables & Beaver Tales is a clever, hilarious souvenir of a particularly vibrant period in Canadian politics.