The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Tubb: A Bath-time Saga in Verse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545081822)

After a writing career in advertising, David Schacker was one of three cofounders of Max the Mutt College of Animation, Art & Design in Toronto, along with his wife of fifty-three years and school director Maxine Schacker, and the illustrator of this book, Tina Seemann, director of Max the Mutt's animation diploma program.

David is a graduate of Cornell University where his most memorable teacher was Vladimir Nabokov; he then attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop under the tutelage of Philip Roth. "In my verse style I'm a direct descendant of W.S. Gilbert of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and the Bab Ballads." In addition to writing verse, he's been a song lyricist: five of his songs, with music by Dan Barrett, are sung by Rebecca Kilgore on the CD "Being a Bear." His favourite writers these days are P.G. Wodehouse and S.J. Perelman. His enduring loves and interests-apart from Maxine, their two cats, and their daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren in Toronto-are classical music, traditional jazz, old movies, and baseball. He also enjoys a good cheese Danish.