Children's Literature Lover Gifts

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

Little Investment on the Praire

Children's Books for the New Era

They had the technology to rebuild him: The $ 6,000,000 egg.

The big bad wolf uses an inhaler before he blows down the three little pigs' straw house.

'Has this kid's book been Oprah-approved?'

"Will you stop asking me if I have any wool!"

A werewolf reads "Hello Moon" to his child.

"I would like to be addressed as the calorifically challenged controller."

"I wouldn't park there!"

Could you give me a ballpark number?

Through the Looking Glass - The Knight Falls into the Ditch.

Alice in Wonderland - The Cheshire Cat.

Once upon a time, I could huff & puff and STILL blow a pig's house down ... Now, I can't even make it up his @# hill.

This apartment is bigger than mine!

"Now, … In place, run run as fast as you can."

"What if the dish and the spoon run away together?" "Not bad, Doug, not bad at all." "And a crockpot tries to lure the dish away with cash and loads of jewels!" "Come on, Rita! That's been done to death. Too derivative."

"You might want to sit down, Mrs. Dumpty."

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

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

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

'Br'er Fox said 'I'm going to throw you into the briar patch'...And Br'er Rabbit said, 'Please,please don't taser me!''

Thomas Mann.

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Victor Hugo

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

The DaVinci Code

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

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