Although George thought everything about him was pretty nice, he thought his knees were something special. In fact, he hugged them all day long. But one day he met a man who laughed at him and told him that not only are knees ugly, but that George's knees were really ugly. And this sent poor George into a flowerbed where he cried. But going into that flowerbed changed George's life.
bp Nichol, recipient of a Governor General's Award for poetry, is a Toronto poet, novelist and children's author. His other children's books include Moosequakes & Other Disasters and Once: A Lullaby, both published by Black Moss Press.