Bedtime Story Ritual Gifts

fairy tales

"Cows jumping over the moon? Dishes running away with spoons? And this was written before people took recreational drugs?"

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

"I can't protect you from everything, but I can read you stories that make you believe I can protect you from everything."

Late night teddy reading

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

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

"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'."

'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

Dog Nightmares

'Thou shalt not steal...except for bases.'

The Poky Little Pupa.

'She's just great with the children.'

Boy and Bear and Monster

"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..."

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

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

'At lone at last.'

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

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

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

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

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

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

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

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

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

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

"Oh, Aunt Em, it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you and you and you ... and you were there. But not that man with the straitjacket."