Kid's Page-turner Seeker Gifts

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

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

The Witches Discover The Wok

You've read the book's dust jacket. Now, play the video game!

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

Reading

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."

Small child checks out a book.

I Heart Juggling

'If you're using this for research into your next book then you can sleep in the spare room!'

Bibliomaniac

Roald Dahl gets a book idea

"This is my first book, but if I like it I may buy another in the near future."

'Y'know it started as a bedtime story he told his kids.'

"It was so noisy in there - all those pages turning."

Roald Dahl's books updated for modern sensitivities.

'It's just more pro-parent spin.'

"Where's Waldo and his little-know cousin what's Wanda."

'It says 'three percent split infititives, 8 percent passive verbs, 16 percent compound-complex sentences,average sentence length 26 words,paperback rights $3.2 million,movie sales $8.3 million,total take $11.5 million,less 5 percent agents fees.'

'What if we just cut back on our genres this year?'

'When I said we should read together I meant separate books.'

"I'll recommend your book if you recommend mine."

'Tell the doctor I'll be with him in another page and a half.'

Madeleine L'Engle

'I found out years later that my parents were drunk when they named me 'Winnie the Pooh'.'

'TV on the blink?'

'I have high hopes of Wisden knocking the Da Vinci code off the top of the best sellers list.'

"For a second there I thought I heard a page turn, as if someone was actually reading a book. Must be repressed memories from the old days."

Books: Meet the Guy Who Sells the Books

Writer's block