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Humour:
- All You Need Is Enough Rope:
- Athlete's Foot: How I Failed at Sports
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War
- Never Leave Your Head Uncovered: A Canadian Nursing Sister in World War Two
- One Man's War
- All You Need Is Enough Rope:
- Athlete's Foot: How I Failed at Sports
- A Prairie Memoir: Never Come Home Without the Cows
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- Never Leave Your Head Uncovered: A Canadian Nursing Sister in World War Two
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- The Canadian Children's Annual (eleven editions)
- The 1980 Comics Annual
Fiction
- James Parsons and His Magnificent Mouth of Adventure
- Susan Super Sleuth
Nonfiction
- Canada's Monsters
- The Canadian Children's Annual (eleven editions)
- The 1980 Comics Annual
Fiction
- James Parsons and His Magnificent Mouth of Adventure
- Susan Super Sleuth
Nonfiction
- Canada's Monsters
COMICS
FICTION
HISTORY
- The Lovesickness Diet; or, These Flames in Which I Fry
HUMOUR
Cartoons
- Breeding As A Sport: 101 Student Howlers
- When's the Last Time You Cleaned Your Navel?
Illustrated Prose Works
- All You Need Is Enough Rope: a light-hearted look at cottage life
- Duffer Golf: or How to Break 100
- The Lovesickness Diet; or, These Flames in Which I Fry
- Breeding As A Sport: 101 Student Howlers
- When's the Last Time You Cleaned Your Navel?
Illustrated Prose Works
- All You Need Is Enough Rope: a light-hearted look at cottage life
- Duffer Golf: or How to Break 100
- The Lovesickness Diet; or, These Flames in Which I Fry
MEDICINE & MENTAL HEALTH
MYTHOLOGY? OR BIOLOGY?
NEWFOUNDLAND
"NOVELTY BOOK" SERIES
NOVEL
PARANORMAL
- Love From Above: Heidi Gardiner's Encounter With The Afterlife
- Mysterious Moments In The Paranormal
- Mysterious Moments In The Paranormal
POETRY
SPORTS
WAR
Book Summary
by Robert Nielsen
Cover and cartoons by Michael Eddenden
Let's allow the reviewers to describe this one!
"With the aid of Michael Eddenden's delightful doodles, Nielsen presents a collection of his favourite howlers submitted by teachers from all over North America. Guaranteed to split sides in or out of the staff room."
N. Moskwa
Education Forum
"I almost never laugh out loud while reading alone; this book had me falling about and phoning friends as well. They missed half the fun: Eddenden's "doodles" are hilariously well-matched to the howlers that they accompany."
Judith Russell
Kingston Whig-Standard
"Of all the odd books to swim this way recently, Breeding as a Sport holds its own with the best of them. Not to spoil it for you, but rather to whet the appetite, let's open the opus at random and see what gladdens the eye. There is something here for everyone. History is your subject? Then consider 'I have nothing to offer but blood, tail, tears and sweat.' Geography? 'Holland is a low, lying country.' Science, perhaps? 'A molecule is a little iddy bit of a thing while an atom is a teensy weensy piece.' Definitions abound. 'Puberty - the time in a woman's life between childhood and adultery.'"
Bruce Levett
The Brantford Expositor
112 pages, wide-format paperback, $7.95
ISBN 0-919676-41-3
About the Author
Robert Nielsen, President of Potlatch Publications, is the author and editor of several Potlatch books, including Garney Henley: A Gentleman and a Tiger; Canadian Children's Anual; and, Breeding as a Sport: 101 Student Howlers. His "institutional biography" of an Ontario hospital, Total Encounters: The Life and Times of the Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene won the "Award for Best Non-fiction Book" from the Hamilton & Region Arts Council.
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