The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Tubb answers the age-old question: Can a bathtub of noble birth find happiness in a forest populated mainly by nice but not-very-bright bears? At last, a story celebrating that unsung hero of family life, the bathtub! This noble fixture magically comes to life as the central character in this tale set in the topsy-turvy world of the Forest Green.
A surprise has been discovered in the forest by a family of bears. They take the wondrous tub-like object home to their lair, but what is it? No one in the forest has a clue but everyone has a firm opinion (not unlike some humans we know). Will Sir Reginald Tubb remain unfulfilled? When misfortune intervenes, will he survive or perish? Or will he be abandoned once again? And what lesson can the reader learn from all this? We're not telling.
Told in cleverly rhymed verse and delightful illustrations in a dreamlike watercolour-effect palette, this fanciful tale will appeal to young readers, preschoolers, and the parents and grandparents who read to them.
"A must-read for bears and little animals of all ages!" says the Forest Green Gazette.
About the Author: After a writing career in advertising, David Schacker was one of three cofounders of Max the Mutt College of Animation, Art & Design in Toronto, along with his wife of fifty-three years and school director Maxine Schacker, and the illustrator of this book, Tina Seemann, director of Max the Mutt's animation diploma program.
David is a graduate of Cornell University where his most memorable teacher was Vladimir Nabokov; he then attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop under the tutelage of Philip Roth. "In my verse style I'm a direct descendant of W.S. Gilbert of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and the Bab Ballads." In addition to writing verse, he's been a song lyricist: five of his songs, with music by Dan Barrett, are sung by Rebecca Kilgore on the CD "Being a Bear." His favourite writers these days are P.G. Wodehouse and S.J. Perelman. His enduring loves and interests-apart from Maxine, their two cats, and their daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren in Toronto-are classical music, traditional jazz, old movies, and baseball. He also enjoys a good cheese Danish.
