Category: Books

This Fumbled Kiss is a collection of G.C. McRae’s sensually rich micro-poems. In it, he takes on topics like first dumb love, the existential rollercoaster of fatherhood and insights from funerals with equal enthusiasm. Known for his humorous picture books and timeless fairy tales, McRae here turns the focus on his own life, where he…

G.C. McRae’s second novel is a story of what family means to different kids. To Brian, who was adopted from birth, he is a “stranger who got made by strangers” and the only instruction book that came with him was in a foreign language. He looks forward to meeting his birth mother for the first…

When G.C. McRae’s Pretty Ballerina came out in 2013, it was an immediate success with kids. A ballerina book with Frankenstein and a fourteen-legged squid? What’s not to love? Still, it was time for a facelift and we commissioned a brand new cover and spanky new illustrations for the inside. Behold, the new Pretty Ballerina!…

Twenty years in the making, Seven Tales is a tour de force of storytelling. Not content with fluffy tales of princesses, castles and giants, McRae peoples his stories with grim twists, sparkling humor and larger than life characters. If you’re looking for the ultimate bedtime book for all ages, this will surely fit the bill.…

Seven Tales is my first collection of original fairy tales. It includes the six novelettes published as ebooks in 2014 as well as a new story, “The Miller and the Old Hag”. Think the Brothers Grimm, but funnier. Or Hans Christian Andersen, but darker. My goal was to create seven works at least as good…

Kana and the Red Pilot is the story of a city kid, Kana MacDonald who has to stay for a while with his cousin, Davis in the country. Sounds boring? Yeah, that’s what Kana thought before the alien crash landed, the weather started happening backwards and he was put on dead chicken duty. Out now, as…

The Tooth This little girl loves to draw. The trouble is, no one can understand her scribbles. Is it a chicken gone berserk? Is it Frankenstein yawning? Oh, no she says, “It’s a pretty ballerina with a little ocarina and her pet chiquita cheetah singing Auld Lang Syne.” No one can figure that out until…