Author Description

This is a book of humorous stories and songs written by Canadian author, folk singer, and music teacher Bob King. Many of the songs Bob has written have achieved fame such as 'Sandwiches are Beautiful' (recorded by Fred Penner and Nancy Cassidy) as well as 'Brother For Sale', recorded by the Olsen twins and 'My Teacher Turned into a Fish'. Bob has also displayed much talent in the oft maligned art of 'snow shovelling'. He claims that snow shovelling is an art and he personally regularly lobbies the International Olympic Committee to get it recognized as an official sport in the winter olympics. There are two other winter poems in this book. One is called 'Santa Got A Real Job' and the other song is 'A Hunter's Lament (aka) 'I Shot Rudolph'. In his story/song called 'Flat Picking with Superman', Bob takes on the Man of Steel himself in a guitar picking contest. His aim in that contest is to draw the attention of the lovely Lois Lane to himsel. He has prepared for the event by purchasing a piece of kryptonite which gives him a definite advantage in the contest. At one point in the story Bob is on stage and tries to sway the judges by accusing superman of being an illegal alien. That is because he claims that Superman entered the U.S. illegally in a spaceship from the planet Krypton instead of entering by legal immigration channels. In the end it is left up to the audience to decide who is the man most worthy to win the affections of Ms. Lane. In another story/song Bob tells the story of when he joined a skydiving school and on his first jump out of the airplane his parachute doesn't open. Its the song that he sings on the way down to the ground. Other stories in the book have titles like: Joe the Toe, The Lost Rhyming Dictionary, Two Saints, The Joy of Breathing, The Joy of Stretching,, and many more. 150 pages