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Alligator Pie

Summary

Alligator Pie, first published in 1974, is a book of children's poetry written by Dennis Lee and illustrated by Frank Newfeld. It won the Book of the Year award from the Canadian Library Association in 1975. The book had multiple adaptations and led to Lee being named "Canada's Father Goose". Alligator Pie Wiggle to the Laundromat Singa Songa Bouncing Song Street Song Mumbo, Jumbo Willaby Wallaby woo Lying on Things Rattlesnake Skipping Song Bed Song In Kamloops Billy Batter Ookpik Bump on Your Thumb The Special Person Like a Giant in a Towel Flying Out of Holes William Lyon Mackenzie King Tony Baloney Skyscraper Tricking I Found a Silver Dollar If You Should Meet Higgledy Piggeldy Thinking in Bed Nicholas Grouch Psychapoo On Tuesdays I Polish my Uncle The Fishes of Kempenfelt Bay Kahshe or Chicoutimi Tongue Twister The Hockey Game Peter Rabbit The Friends The Sitter and the Butter and the Better Batter Fritter Windshield Wipers I wrote Alligator Pie one day riding on a bike where we lived. My feet went around the pedals of the bike, and I started hearing these nutty words. Alligator Pie. One of his daughters wanted to be read a poem before she went to sleep and Lee "knew lots of nursery rhymes but none of them seemed right for a small Canadian about to go off to sleep" which contributed to him writing the collection. The first people to listen to the poems were Lee's two daughters, who did not like that the poems had no pictures although they liked the "silly words". It took Lee nine years to finish the book. It was published in 1974 by Macmillan Publishers and Frank Newfeld illustrated the poems. The poetry has a "Canadian context". Theatre Passe Muraille has produced stage adaptations of the collection since 1974. The plays were performed by "weaving the characters and stories together with bits of dialogue, music and movement." The Vancouver East Cultural Centre held the Theatre Passe Muraille's play in December 1984, and the organization invited children in the Lower Mainland to send in their own Alligator Pie art.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Pie

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