This short post is in celebration of my friend ... visiting from Victoria .... that's south of here! ;-)

They are everywhere ... actors, singers, TV hosts, inventors, business folks .... is it an invasion? We may think Canadians are our quiet neighbors to the north, but even that is not true for more than 75% of the population. The U.S. of Eh? How Canada Secretly Controls the United States and Why That's Okay, by Kerry Colburn and Rob Sorensen is a wickedly humorous (humourous) book about the Canadian influence in our daily lives.

I was delighted to find M is for Mountie: an RCMP Alphabet, by Polly Horvath and illstrated by Lorna Bennett was much like B is for Bagpipes from the July 27, 2015 post. This is a great series! Each letter has something to do with the subject of the book, in short verse, in rhyme, and then there is a column of more information on the side. This book did not disappoint, there is much here on the Mounties, what they do, their history, and, of course, that wonderful Musical Ride.

Reading Hermit With Dog