Geist's maps of Canada

Oh, I must share this find from my morning blogstroll! Today, while still in fairy tale mode after yesterday's post perhaps, a link to The Fairy Tale Map of Canada piqued my interest at plep.

It turns out to be at the site of Geist, a Vancouver-based literary magazine of Canadian ideas and culture. There are more "maps" of Canada based on thematic place names - some are really quite funny, cheeky even a bit naughty, so go and enjoy yourself! Browsing through some of the essays, I had another chuckle over the story of a mushroom-gathering foray titled Gribnicki, and some bittersweet memories reading Apricot Platz.

Oh, and do read the more serious and insightful Cautionary Tales for Children by Alberto Manguel - "Some years ago, Susan Crean amusingly suggested that nations might be defined or understood through their emblematic children's books and according to whether the protagonist was male or female."