Bedtime Story Reader Gifts

Boy and Bear and Monster

Elephant on Bunk Bed above Monkey

'Couldn't Peter claim Mr. McGregor's garden was an 'attractive nuisance?'

Late night teddy reading

'Please make us instruments of Thy peace, starting with Bucky Sims.'

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down, broke his crown and Jill said 'I told you so'."

"...and the humans turned Neville into 80,000 toothpicks..."

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

The Poky Little Pupa.

'She's just great with the children.'

"Why didn't one of the bears just call 9-1-1 and have that girl arrested for trespassing?"

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

'Read me the one about the ant and the obsessive-compulsive grasshopper.'

"Mmmm! Bears hibernate in the winter. Cats can hibernate anytime we want!"

"First, I sent a rocket of a drive down the fairway, then I took the 7-iron, put that ball on the green...a hundred and eighty yards if it was an inch..."

Now Simon would have nightmares about his mother's failing eyesight.

"So, when he says, 'What a good boy am I,' Jack is really reinforcing his self-esteem."

Ant story: 'and so they worked all day and they worked all night and then they worked some more, the end.'

'Put some feeling into it. I can't tell the difference between the lion and the mouse.'

"I'm actually pretty ready for bed."

'The pile of unread books by the bed looks bigger than the futon...'

'The pioneers opened the frontier, but it wasn't legal until brave lawyers blazed the paper trail!'

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

"Good evening, Susan. We've decided it's time you get your own bed."

This is the new Director's Cut version of Hansel and Gretel...with additional scenes and three alternative endings!!!

"Customers who bought 'The Three Little Pigs' also bought...."

"That dream catcher may be working a little too well."

"Oh,oh - here comes quality time again."

"I'll get up in negative five minutes."

The Optician At Home: "....And it didn't fit the other sister, either. Then Cinderella tried on the glasses, and she could see perfectly."

"Only one pailful? Did they have water restrictions like we do?"

"And if that diamond ring don’t shine, Poppa will probably take it back to 47th Street and get something for your mother."

'Am I looking sad or happy in the appropriate places?'

"Mommy usually reads me a story, then slips me a twenty."