Family-focused Reader Gifts

Boss

"I'm voting for Stephen because I cannot stand Katie's mother, she is so catty! Anyway-- how're your parents doing with the divorce?"

'And the cat is due back in 2 weeks.'

Multi-Generational Books

'It's baseball season!'

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

"Anything interesting happen over the weekend, Frank?"

Gloria, why do you keep saying "Go Fish"? We're playing poker. It's as close as I can get to telling you what I'd really like to in a family newspaper.

Dummies for Dummies.

'My mom says we're expecting a house guest for 18 years.'

Inbox and outbox for books

HappyHouse Daycare. Family-owned & family-run since this many (fingers showing a count of seven) years.

"Please continue as a lab rat, we have five mouths to feed!"

Books-CDs-Tapes.

Proud Mum.

"I've spent so much time with my family that I've started to lose sight of what really matters."

"Another problem is that I haven't had dinner with my family for a week."

'Soon he will stop asking where he came from and start telling you where he is going.'

"Let me tell you what it's like to be seven in this city."

"We no longer shelve gay fiction separately. It's been assimilated."

'... and then Peter was Mr. McGregor...'

"Last, but not least, give my child a seat by the window so I can see her on my drone camera."

"That story had an engaging plot, but 'lived happily ever after' is an unsatisfying denouement."

First library card

Mr. Ralph Nickleby's 'honest' composure

"So...what do you think of babies?"

"I know it's my turn, but please continue."

Silly me: I'm holding my book the right way up...

"I thought we had the sort of relationship where 'please' and 'thank you' were implicit."

Praying mantis rock band sings about dysfunctional family.

The incredible Journey to the Centre of the Earth

'Back home! Now I can get on with my holiday reading.'

"No darling, a 'wolf whistle' is never a good sign, it's always predatory behaviour, even if it's not from an actual wolf..."

"Yes, we're osbourne rich, but, no, we're not Olsen twin rich."

"Dad, I need to dip into my college fund."