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Clickety Clack is Joy McDiarmid’s self- portrait of bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable for a woman coming of age in the 1950s. Amidst gender and sexuality confusion, this Winnipeg woman began to look for romantic love and sexual fulfillment: sometimes wanting to dress as a man, sometimes as a woman, sometimes attracted to men, sometimes to women. In candid accounts of this paralysing complexity, which McDiarmid tried valiantly to understand and express despite oppressive social stigmas and parental strictures, her insights about human sexuality and «living the lie» are startling even in this age of open commentary about sex. Along primitive frontiers of treatment for bipolar disorders and dramas of shock therapy in psychiatric wards, entire years of McDiarmid’s life would slip by even as earlier years were being erased from her memory. Yet there came triumphant accomplishments in her competitive and stimulating world of advertising, university work, private enterprise, photography, travel, touring in her MG sports car, skilful tennis, and love. Such juxtaposed experiences of despair and defiant courage, supplemented at the end of each chapter with medical commentary by Joy’s psychiatrist Dr. Frances Edye, make Clickety Clack a rare road map to life.

The animals were very excited. They'd been invited to spend the day at school! The cows stomped and clomped. The chickens clapped and snapped. The pigs hooted and hollered. And Duck was…being Duck-y. But Farmer Brown said that school was quiet, serious, and calm. So he set some rules: No stomping and clomping. No clapping, no snapping. No hooting, no hollering. And NO being Duck-y. But the school may be more like the barnyard than Farmer Brown thought.

Happy first birthday, Little Duck! Everyone wants to look their best for the party. But Little Duck has never had a birthday before-so how better to learn how to prepare than to do what all the other animals do! The sheep trim their wool-so Little Duck trims her feathers. The pigs need a mud bath-so Little Duck quish and quashes, too. All over the barnyard Little Duck snips, slurps, squishes, and shimmy shakes herself ready until…WHOOPS! It's party picture time-and Little Duck is a big mess. No matter-it's not something Farmer Brown's frosted maple cake can't fix!

It's Valentine's Day, and on the farm that means a Valentine's party. Little Duck is wildly excited. She hangs balloons, streamers, sparkling lights, and hearts everywhere, and she hand-makes a valentine for everyone. On top of a hill, a little fox hears the music from the party and follows Little Duck's many decorations to the barn…but foxes are not at all welcome on farms. The chickens stop dancing. The sheep stop dancing. The pigs stop dancing. The mice hustle off to hide. Will Little Fox ruin the dance? Perhaps she's just what the party needs!

The Adventures of Mr. Clackworthy presents 8 tales of Christopher Booth's antihero – Amos Clackworthy, swindler extraordinaire. Together with his henchman The Early Bird, Mr. Clackworthy pursues a life of crime, preying on those who deserve to be conned. Included in this volume are: <P> MR. CLACKWORTHY: AN INTRODUCTION, by Steve Lewis<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY TELLS THE TRUTH<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY WITHIN THE LAW<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY’S PIPE DREAM<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY TURNS CHEMIST<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY DIGS A HOLE<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY REVIVES A TOWN<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY SELLS SHORT<BR> MR. CLACKWORTHY’S POT OF GOLD