Bob Markwalter

The Tap Dancing Pig Bob Markwalter

Sparkling with fun and humor, these tales from 40 years of newspaper columns will make you laugh out loud, giggle, and nod with a knowing grin. Cowboys negotiate with the herd during a trail drive; a giant shrimp comes to rent a room; the Thanksgiving turkey blasts off; teenagers nettle their parents to the point of madness; and fairy tales stand on their heads. The author captures human failings and foibles with a comic eye, presents history in a way no one ever taught it in schools, and even wends his way through the world of the hard-boiled film detectives of Hollywood's golden years. It's all packaged in short reads you can enjoy at your own pace, so write yourself a prescription for laughs: take them cover-to-cover or just whenever you need a pick-me-up. And by the way, they're reusable.