Book Readings

You didn’t know I was a crook, did you? Well, if you listen to me reading part of the first chapter of my 20th book, TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON, you will hear how I smuggled one of my orphan wild animals, a raccoon I named Tabasco, on several flights across Canada. Tabasco is a real… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 1

THERE’S A RACCOON ON MY PROMOTION TOUR Chance and coincidence play big parts in my life. Tabasco wasn’t my first raccoon orphan. Many years earlier, I was about to go on a little rubber boat ride for thousands of miles between Victoria, British Columbia and the Pribiloff Islands in the Bering Strait, Alaska when I… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 2

THERE’S A RACCOON IN MY APARTMENT When the Vancouver Zoo in Stanley Park asked me to look after Tabasco after her mother was shot for raising her family in the attic of a Vancouver house, I was living on the third floor of a no-pet apartment below Simon Fraser University and doing a couple of… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 3

THERE’S A RACCOON IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD When the Stanley Park Zoo in Vancouver gave me Tabasco, an orphan raccoon to look after, I was living in an apartment at the bottom of Simon Fraser University while working on my graduate degrees. (The reason I left Canada’s North and escaped to SFU would make a dramatic… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 4

THERE’S A RACCOON ON MY CAMPING TRIP I think you’ll like Chapter 5 of TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON. It’s called THERE’S A RACCOON ON MY CAMPING TRIP. A camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in Canada. Now that sounds like an easy trip for a raccoon but it wasn’t for my sister Jan who was… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 5

CHAPTER 6 FROM TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON In chapter 6 of our book TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON my raccoon and I are still students at Simon Fraser University but we have another home in Summerland in the Okanagan area of central British Columbia. We lived in an apple orchard with Jack, my friend from the… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 6

CHAPTER 7 FROM TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON Well, what’s Tabasco my Saucy Raccoon been up to in chapter 7? We are at our Okanagan home on Trout Creek and it is Christmas, a snowy Christmas. On Christmas Eve Tabasco did what lots of people do – he left me cooking a Christmas Eve dinner party… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 7

CHAPTER 8 FROM TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON Well what’s TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON doing in chapter 8? This one is called THERE’S A RACCOON EVERYWHERE. I left Simon Fraser University and Tabasco and I are holidaying with Jack, my friend the wildlife biologist in the Okanagan. It’s Spring and Tabasco is almost a year old.… Read more: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 8