The Twelve Days of Christmas in Canada

It's not even close to christmas right now but I happened to get my hands on this book and it's delightful. I expected just a straight adaptation of the 12 Days, but actually it's an epistolary tour of Canada! Juliette goes to visit her cousin Theo in Canada over the holidays, and she mails letters back home for every day they're there. They managed to go from coast to coast and hit every province (not the territories) in 12 days! Juliette learns some cool stuff and so did I. Saskatoon (the city) was named after saskatoon (the berry)! Toronto has 6 Chinatowns (I should have known that)! There's a city in Newfoundland called Come By Chance! The illustrations were beautiful. I especially liked this little tidbit: “National Horse: the Canadian horse”. Who knew!