Mouseland : A Political Fable, As Told By Tommy Douglas

Card covers, saddle stitched with staples, 20 pages, oblong, 7x9.5 in - 17.5x24cm, B&W illustrations. Illustrations by Willow Brown. Compiled by Evelyn Johnson and Louise Warner.

Front cover bears a single small stain, back cover lightly soiled along spine edge. Spine lightly rubbed at head and heel.

This 17.5 x 24 cm (7 x 9.5 in) booklet contains a political fable created by Clare Gillis (an east-coast Co-operative Commonwealth Federation [CCF] politician) and told by Tommy Douglas, Saskatchewan’s first CCF premier and Canada’s first New Democratic Party (NDP) leader. “Mouseland” critiques Canada’s electoral vacillations between Liberal and Conservative governments, arguing that both parties are more concerned with their own interests than improving voters’ lives. The fable also deflects critics who characterize the NDP’s leaders as communists. Full-page illustrations accompany the text. The volume is sponsored by the Turtleford (Saskatchewan) New Democratic Party Association.