"You can almost hear the skipping rope slapping the sidewalk," wrote Margaret Laurence of Dennis Lee's timeless poetry collection Alligator Pie. One of the first illustrated books published about Canadian children and featuring Canadian place names, Alligator Pie established...
"Alligator pie, alligator pie, / If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die." So begins one of the most beloved of modern children's rhymes, first introduced in 1974 by Dennis Lee and now reinvented for a new generation of children. Nora Hilb's witty, vibrant artwork makes the...