Discovering that Dennis Lee had written the songs for Fraggle Rock a few years ago was part of that surreal year where I discovered that all the songs I grew up with were written by people I'd already heard of who were moonlighting in Canadian children's television. The other example was Malvina Reynolds, who wrote a huge number of songs for Mr. Dressup, the seminal Canandian children's television show.

Also I have a vague memory of having heard Mordacai Richler read Jacob Two-Two at my library, though it might have been the sequel. I have, somewhere, on vinyl, a recording of Jacob Two-Two which I really ought to convert to MP3.