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

Characters jumping out of a book.

"One side is for depression, the other is for anxiety, and if you're still confused make an appointment with the cat."

Sign: 'Welcome to Fernbanks. Beneath our quaint Norman Rockwell-ish exterior beats a big-box chain store heart, ready to sell out at the drop of a hat.'

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot

'Of course it's safe. It has no preservatives, no additives, no artificial coloring...'

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Dorothy and Toto

Christopher Isherwood

Don Quixote

"What would you recommend to hold a seven-year-old girl's attention in a car from East Seventy-eighth Street to Bridgehampton?"

"Will she know what this is in reference to?"

It's a picture book. The words aren't called "subtitles."

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack -- King Of The Commune

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

'If I want to live happily ever after, grandma, do I have to marry a princess?'

Where the Wild Things Summer

"I'm not sure if the audience is ready to embrace you in a romantic comedy."

Children's Spirit Slips Out at Night.

'They were in a group, so I bagged them all.'

Reality Wagon Train

Gorillas Learn to Read.

Alice in Wonderland - Alic e Meets a Puppy.

Scene from The Emperor's New Clothes. Little boy says: 'But he's not even wearing any designer labels.'

The author will be signing books for fifteen minutes.

"Same story - boy becomes girl."

'He's giving us a final request? Ask for a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau - that'll give us till November.'

An owl searches for a pussycat.

Alice in Wonderland - Trying to Behead the Cheshire Cat.

'My Atheist blog has developed a cult following. If that's not ironic, I don't know what is.'

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Alice Through the Looking Glass - Alice and the White Queen

'What's with all the Pumpkin Pies?'

'TV on the blink?'