Born with a Beard
A family tale about a baby who was born with a beard, told by the bearded one himself.
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Writings and Drawings by Ted Ringer
Hodgepodge, Mishmash, and Jumble
A collection with 150 illustrations, including 95 in full color and 52 in black and white.
A lively literary collection of stories, poems, jokes, musings, drawings, cartoons, tall tales, short jokes, and wide horizons for curious readers of all sizes.
About the Book
Hodgepodge, Mishmash, and Jumble
Within this hodgepodge are stories, pictures and cartoons, tall tales, short jokes, and wide horizons. It is a book that invites readers to flirt with the unknown, uncover secrets, run into old friends, and be comforted along the way.
The book brings together work from the last fifty years: scratchings, sketches, literary oddities, poems, humor, and stray bursts of imagination gathered into one generous volume.
It is playful, thoughtful, and wonderfully hard to pin down, just as a proper hodgepodge ought to be.
Notes & Praise
“Who knew?”
— His English teacher
“A literary P.B. and J.”
— Julia Child
“Ringer had me at Mishmash.”
— The Daily Planet
“It shook me to my core.”
— Crabby Appleton
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