Book Day Gifts

"Yer know I hates it when yer read over me shoulder!"

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

"You're going to hate yourself."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

First Novels.

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Little dog in Romance section in bookstore under sign: 'Puppy Love'

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Rare Books

"Yep, I've read this chapter before."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

Myths and legends...

To read or not to read?

Isabel Allende

It was the best of times, it was the wasrtn blanfil trmsl... It was the bnarfy foodel pook. Arghh! Darn reader's block.

Sign in a bookshop window offers chance to meet the narrator of the audio book.

'The Lemming Book Store'

Catalogue of little books.

The Very Stressed Caterpillar

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

'It was a play on words...and a bad one at that!'

'Have you got the book 'After the end of the world'?'

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

"Hemingway! Is he any good?"

Library

"Did you ask for the large print edition?"

Men reading Tall Stories, and Short Stories in a Library