Crow Toes Quarterly - The New Face of Children's Literature

I am The Narrator. Welcome to Crow Toes Quarterly. I live in this world and it is my job to tell you the story between the stories. We have many wonderful authors and artists who have created many wonderful stories with narrators of their own and it is my great pleasure to give those narrators a voice, but when each narrator finishes his or her story there is a space where I must take over and lead YOU to your next narrator. In that space I am free to say what I want and I am free to do what I want. I have opinions and I make judgments. I can tell you what I want, or I can keep it to myself. I use the first-person pronoun “I” when I talk, which makes what you are currently reading a first-person narrative. I hope you like what I have to say. Read my story HERE!

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Our Staff Villain is not a pleasant man, and he’d be the first to agree with me. Most days he sits at his little desk behind mine and he complains. He complains about the weather and he complains about the music we play on our old record player. He complains about the “T” key on his typewriter, which is always getting stuck and he complains about the cowlick I have on the back of my head. Our staff villain pretty much complains about everything and never really does anything to fix his problems. In reality, he should be our Staff Whiner, but his villainous past far outweighs his whiney present… Read his story HERE!

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Ogilvy does not speak very much. He says, “Please” and points at the water cooler when he is thirsty. He always says, “Thank you.” Even after he does something for YOU, he says, “Thank you.” It is a quality I admire in Ogilvy. Every once and a while I catch Ogilvy talking in his sleep while he takes his afternoon siesta. It is through these sleepy dialogues and a few secret phone calls that I have been able to put together a somewhat choppy version of where Ogilvy came from and how he got to us. Read his story HERE!

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Poinsettia Park comes from a long line of adventurers. Her Great Grandfather was Edmund Hillary Park II, the first man to climb to the summit of Mount Pondama, the most treacherous mountain in the world. Mount Pondama has claimed more lives than all the other mountains in the world combined and to date only three other adventurers have succeeded in reaching the summit. Read Poinsettia's story HERE!

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Since Christopher first put pen to paper he has considered himself a writer. It wasn’t until he fell into a deep, dark hole and met a strange man named R.E. Flex that Christopher actually became a writer. Mr. Flex told Christopher an amazing and frightening collection of stories to pass the time while they waited for someone to come and rescue them. Christopher vowed that if they ever got out of the hole he would write all of Mr. Flex's stories down and share them with the world. The King of Arugula (Thistledown Press, 2007) is the first story in this collection and is Christopher's first book. When he's not trying to recall Mr. Flex's words, he helps out at Crow Toes Quarterly. Christopher was born on a horse farm in Edmonton, but now lives in Surrey, British Columbia, with two cats that refuse to wear saddles. That's his story! Seriously. That's all there is.