Literacy Lovers Gifts

'We want to be ready for when he starts to read.'

'I'm taking post-graduate work to learn how to read at least the fifth grade level.'

"I think the little ones are for kids and the big ones are for grown-ups."

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

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

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

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

Big Bang Theory.

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

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

Campaign for Plain English

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

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

Victor Hugo

First Novels.

Thomas Mann.

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

Television Readers.

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Jean-Paul Sartre

Voltaire

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."