Like a potent mix of 'Absolutely Fabulous' and 'Sweet Valley High', say hello to 'Pedigree Girls', North America's next big thing. Privileged since birth and smugly self-satisfied, the Pedigree Girls are the stars of a comic strip written and illustrated by multi-talented Montreal artist Sherwin Tjia. These strips are highly addictive, darkly ...
An adventure begins in these entertaining poems for young readers that explore everything from love and conformity to the nature of time. Philosophy and tomfoolery are equally at home.
"The World Is a Heartbreaker" inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses. What's a pseudohaiku? It's the poetry of pure indulgence, a three-liner without the constraint, the pretension or the 5-7-5 syllable form. The subject ...
An agent provocateur possessed of almost monstrous talent, Sherwin Tjia has been navigating the edges of Canadian poetry for some time, enthralling and agitating readers with his bizarre and beautiful chapbooks and concept-driven poetry. This book represents Tjia's exploration of both the essence and limits of poetry. Here, the traditional and ...
Destined to be a bedtime read-out-loud favourite, this highly accessible but unusual book of wordplay fun for children brings back to life the long lost oddball spirit of the best of Ogden Nash and Hillaire Belloc. It brims over with a love of language - teasing the tongue without twisting it."I liked these poemsAnd you will, tooSo buy this ...
The Pedigree Girls would sell their own parents for a diamond necklace, had they not already killed them for the life insurance. Like a potent mix of 'Absolutely Fabulous' and 'Sweet Valley High', they are privileged since birth and oh so smugly self-satisfied. With Prada handbags where their hearts should be, the musings of these teenage trust ...
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