Photos from the first day of the BEC trade show. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.)

Adrienne Clarkson, no longer Her Excellency but still excellent.

Mystery author Anthony Bidulka signs away at the Insomniac/PGC booth.

De Niro.

Put me in, coach: George Bowering.

McArthur author Marsha Boulton tries to rein in Wally the Wonderdog.

Margaret MacMillan chats with editor Michael Schellenberg, who bought her upcoming book for Penguin Canada before moving on to Knopf.

Eric Walters at the Random House kids.

Toronto cartoonist Rina Piccolo went the extra mile at her Manda signing, doing drawings in copies of Tina.

Comrade Bock (Dennis, that is) gets into the spirit of The Communist.