A Porcupine in a Pine Tree?

Keep your %^&* partridges. In Canada, we have porcupines. And moose. And beavers and Mounties and Tim Hortons doughnuts and hockey.

Which is why I wrote  A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian Twelve Days of Christmas.

Award-winning illustrator Werner Zimmermann did the pics, and boy are they great. FUUUUNNNNY! Expect to see Beavers juggling Stanley Cups and Red Squirrels juggling Maple Leafs. Yes, there are loons too.

I can't wait to get my author's copies, sometime in August, when the book will be available in stores across Canada (as will my Halloweenie book, The Haunted House that Jack Built).

Two guesses what everyone I know will be finding under their tree in 2010!