Adams Fables

By Mark Adams

ADAMS FABLES is colorfully illustrated with double-entendre puns and fun. The cast of playful animals gently teaches life’s lessons to the small child within everyone.
EVER WONDER WHY:
Coyotes howl
Penguins wear tuxedoes
Hummingbirds hum
Cheetahs cry
Giraffes have long necks
Lions roar
Flamingos stand on one leg
Basenjis yodel
And so much more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Snow
• Release date: Aug 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311686701

Mark Adams

MARK ADAMSJOURNEY OF A STORY TELLERLate at night on December 11, 1928, Ole Doc Pollock plowed through the driving snow storm in his brand new Model A Ford to the northern Ohio farmhouse of the immigrant Markowski family to deliver their fifth child. The scrawny boy was named Adam Frank after his dziadzius’ (Polish grandfather and pronounced jä deuce”)Adam’s first five years were spent in bed as the result of every known childhood disease and TB so his older sister read to him to help keep him entertained. His world was that of fantasy and telling Teddy, his appropriately named Teddy Bear, all about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. During the Great Depression and at the age of ten his dream was to be a storyteller like Mark Twain. Adam had learned he could help the family budget earning five cents a word by writing a short story for the Saturday Evening Post. A kindly editor took the time to write a very personal letter, none of the usual form letters, encouraging “Mark” to be a storyteller; but, to get more experience.Fast forward: Adam and his high school sweetheart Phyllis were married. He legally changed his name to Mark Adams and earned a doctorate. After 26 years rearing five great kids and both having successful careers as Educators they went their separate ways. Mark set out to get more experience: traveling in more than fifty counties worldwide and working in Peru, Liberia and South Africa,In 1983 Mark and Judy were married and they decided she would pursue her career in medicine so Mark could retire to follow his dream as a storyteller. In writing COLLAGE, an extensive historical fiction, the young German Protagonist Lisa fell in love with an American Doughboy in Paris during World War One. Lisa literally took over the story line! It was as if Mark became the scribe instead of the storyteller.Since then all of Mark’s fiction, nonfiction, fables, poetry and illustrated cartoons seem to be collaborations with ghost writers --- more than likely Adam F. Markowski and dziadzius’.

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ADAMS FABLES

Mark Adams

Published by James Snow at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 Mark Adams

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Dedicated to the small children within

Judeline, Adam and everyone else ages 4 to 104.

Dear Mark,

Thank you so much for your book. I love it. You did a lot of work. I hope you get a lot of circulation. If not for your sake, for the animal's sake.

Cheers,

Art Buchwald

Vineyard Haven, MA

July 31, 2006

MARK ADAMS

JOURNEY OF A STORY TELLER

Late at night on December 11, 1928, Ole Doc Pollock plowed through the driving snow storm in his brand new Model A Ford to the northern Ohio farmhouse of the immigrant Markowski family to deliver their fifth child. The scrawny boy was named Adam Frank after his dziadzius’ (Polish grandfather and pronounced jä deuce")

Adam’s first five years were spent in bed as the result of every known childhood disease and TB so his older sister read to him to help keep him entertained. His world was that of fantasy and telling Teddy, his appropriately named Teddy Bear, all about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. During the Great Depression and at the age of ten his dream was to be a storyteller like Mark Twain. Adam had learned he could help the family budget earning five cents a word by writing a short story for the Saturday Evening Post. A kindly editor took the time to write a very personal letter, none of the usual form letters, encouraging Mark to be a storyteller; but, to get more experience.

Fast forward: Adam and his high school sweetheart Phyllis were married. He legally changed his name to Mark Adams and earned a doctorate. After 26 years rearing five great