Early Reader Gifts

"I'm still pre-literate."

If I knew how to read this, it would probably make me gag...

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

'Are you sure I should read my book report to the class? --�It's PG-13.'

Gen-Next Library

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

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

Baby Einstein. Baby Frankenstein.

"I'm not angry, but in the future I’d prefer it if you chewed up her Sue Graftons, not my P.G. Wodehouses."

"First they came for the horoscope and the crossword and I did nothing. Then they came for the cartoonists and there was no-one left to satirise it."

'My daughter says I'm hopelessly outdated...'

'I don't like reading on screen, so I'm printing the internet to look at it later.'

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

'Bront?saurus.'

James Joyce.

'Social and political revolution? Check out our 'Do It Yourself' section.'

'Don't worry, he'll soon grow into it.'

"At least she's reading."

"So you can tweet. That's why you have to learn the alphabet."

Toys from the Pre School of Hard Knocks - Stumbling Blocks.

Jane Austen

'I'm pretty sleepy tonight, Dad - could we just skip ahead to the chase scene?'

'I can't remember the title, but it began, 'Once upon a time'...'

"Boy, these are really overdue!"

'What are you staring at? . . . Please save me from the English majors.'

"Think about the perks. You learn to read, you get a pre-approved library card!"

I see we have the same summer reading list. ABC.

Books*. *Batteries not included.

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

Book

'Books are okay, except they only get one channel.'

"When in the course of human events it becomes... Oh, blast it! Adams is just going to edit the heck out of this..."

'My battery is dead. How does it end?'

"Poor kid, his parents gave him a book for Christmas."

"Books are tricky. You can't text with a text book and you can't call with a phone book!"