The birthplace of legendary troubadour, Gordon Lightfoot, and summer home of world-renowned humorist, Stephen Leacock, Orillia, Ontario is also home to “petty men who walk under these huge legs and peep about…” Among these lesser peeps is Colin McKim, retired journalist and author of wonderfully obscure children’s stories, including The Bully and the Elephant, The Ice Cream Witch and Cod Save The Queen. He has been a fan of nonsense verse since his first exposure to Mother Goose where a man having scratched his eyes out in a bramble bush simply “jumped into another bush and scratched them in again.” This is the inspired lunacy he loves, the delicious blend of sorcery and illogic best conjured in nonsense verse.