Canadian Brain Drain is American Gain
Canadian Garden Expert Heads South
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO and CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/16/12 -- Canadian gardening personalities Steven Biggs and Donna Balzer are sending Guff to the USA.
It wasn't a hard choice to send Guff packing, not with the reaction he's caused. That reaction has been overwhelmingly positive - like the time someone stopped Balzer on the street and said, "Your book changed my life!" That wacky Canadian book, No Guff Vegetable Gardening, is Guff's home.
The book-graphic novel meets gardening - brings together gardening perspectives of two very different Canadian horticulturists: boy and girl; east and west; and Gen Xer and boomer. But they're not alone: Guff, the chief antagonist, is a curmudgeonly third "expert" with silly advice that Biggs and Balzer discuss.
The reaction to the book in Canada has been so positive that Balzer and Biggs are collaborating with American garden publisher St. Lynn's Press to take it - and Guff - south.
The coaches' corner approach makes gardening fun. Toronto Star reviewer Peggy Mackenzie says, "Energy emanates from this book, which seems odd since it's about growing vegetables." It helps that there are lots of fun anecdotes, such as Biggs' stories about making parsnip wine or carrots in the washing machine.
"Occasionally in a librarian's life ... a book will arrive that causes immediate bibliomania. A book that is so different, so appealing, and upon reading it, so completely perfect, that it must be shown with great excitement to everyone who loves books," says Susan Yates for the Gabriola Sounder.
Contacts:
Donna Balzer
(403) 827-6390
The book:
Steven Biggs
(416) 953-1549
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Datum: 16.04.2012 - 18:38 Uhr
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