"In a nutshell, Scaredy Squirrel is the story of a small squirrei living in a big and frightening world, never leaving his nut tree. Green Martians, killer bees, germs, and sharks are just a few things the agoraphobic Scaredy Squirrel dreads. Then,…
The first in a series of three books, Schwartz has gathered pieces of folklore and urban legends, and has adapted them. The book contains 29 total stories.
It has been challenged due to its violence and surreal/ nightmarish illustrations.
This article focuses on the debate between the superiority and value of downtown versus suburban life. Desbarats very candidly admits that he is slowly becoming acclimatized to suburban life and the comforts and convenience that it…
Chanie, misnamed Charlie by his teachers, was a young boy who died on October 22, 1966, walking the railroad tracks, trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to return home. Chanie’s home was 400 miles away. He didn’t know…
In this article, Desbarats argues that humans are inherently romantic and that we have, to our detriment, ignored the value of Victorian poetry in a world consumed by computers and fear of nuclear fallout.
Description: Senet is an ancient Egyptian board game similar to backgammon. As in backgammon, the objective is to bear all of one's pawns off first. A couple of interesting differences is that there are safe and trap spaces on…