Premier Alison Redford was criticized this week after she harshly denounced her opposition in a campaign-style speech to a group of school children in Calgary. In response to the Premier’s fiery words, book publishers jumped on the opportunity to reach impressionable young minds by releasing a series of children’s books about Alberta politics.
Both Premier Redford and Wildrose leader Danielle Smith have contributed to two of the first batch of these children’s books expected to hit book shelves this summer.
Where the Wildrose Things Are by Alison Redford
A young boy named Max, after dressing in his wolf costume, wreaks havoc through his province’s legislature and is disciplined by the Speaker. As he feels agitation with the Speaker, Max’s discovers a mysterious jungle environment caused by climate change, and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by malicious beasts known as the “Wildrose Things.” After successfully intimidating the creatures, Max is hailed as the king of the Wildrose Things and enjoys a playful romp with his subjects; however, he decides to return home, to the Wildrose Things’ dismay. After arriving back at the legislature, Max discovers a $430,000 bank draft waiting for him.
Good Families Don’t (Go Into Debt) is Danielle Smith’s funniest book yet, about a risqué subject that is guaranteed to have children–and politicos–rolling in the aisles.
When Carmen tries to tell her parents that there is a big pile of debt lying on her bed, they don’t believe her. “Good families like ours,” they tell her, “do not have debt.” But when they go upstairs to see, the debt attacks them–as it does the similarly disbelieving police when they arrive. Carmen is left to deal with the situation on her own, which she does with the help of a Wild Rose.
In The Liberals and NDP Get in a Fight, the ideologically compatible Liberals and NDP are fighting–all day long until voters help them realize that electoral cooperation is possible, even if you argue once in a while.
5 replies on “New series Alberta politics-themed childrens books released.”
These are great, but I would be happier if they were fiction
Good luck to the Berenstain Bears! I think they have a better chance of finding minds that are open rather than old and ossified than the DRP or Change Alberta did. Maybe they could start with a Ray Martin Bear mentioning in the Glenora candidates’ meeting that he and his Liberal and Alberta Party opponents, if they sat down for coffee, would likely agree about 98 percent of everything. Then the 3 bears could get together after the election (as the 3 candidates did not) and who knows what might come of it?
Until progressive vote-splitting is stopped in its tracks, Alberta politics will continue to be both frustrating and boring as hell for those of us who can see the essential “divided-we-fall” maelstrom we are caught up in.
One can only wonder what it will take for progressive elites to work together like mature, reasonable adults.
Just another reason why Danielle Smith will never be Premier.
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