Other Goose by Barbara Klunder (2007) (signed)
Barbara Klunder
Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Minds
48 pages
Published : 2007
Hardcover
8 x 6 ½ inches
Book Design by Michael Solomon
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-88899-829-3
ISBN-10: 0-88899-829-5
Little Bo-Peep
Is one of the sheep
Found at the shopping center.
Leave her alone
And she's liable to clone.
But isn't that why you sent her?
In this gently subversive book, artist and designer Barbara Klunder takes classic nursery rhymes and turns them on their heads, adding her own quirky twist to familiar favorites. "Rock-a-Bye Baby" laments the loss of her treetop to logging. Old Mother Hubbard must resort to a food bank. Jack and Jill discover that their well water is polluted, and Mary watches her garden flourish with weeding and fertilizing. Second-hand smoke, recycling, allergies, logging, pollution, oil spills, gasoline shortages and crooked politicians are all treated with Klunderesque whimsy and wit.
Barbara Wyn Klunder is an eclectic artist gifted in many genres and media, from designing hand-knit sweaters (which were launched in New York with the help of Vogue magazine), hand-hooked rugs and fonts to illustration work for books, posters and logos for clients ranging from theatres to jazz festivals to the Rolling Stones. Her conceptual museum show, "27 Downsized Purses," was a collection of small purses made out of all kinds of materials from nature (birch-bark, pine cones, wood), and including embroidery, knitting, rug hooking, hardware and graffiti. She is well known for her commitment to human rights and environmental causes, and her work has been exhibited throughout North America. Barbara teaches drawing and painting at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and she is a sought-after lecturer and juror for contemporary art exxhibitions. She lives in Toronto and Vancouver.
