Literary Adventurers Gifts

Robinson Crusoe on the phone - "Big job. No problem, it'll be done by Friday."

"I haven't the heart to tell him there's no such place as Shangri-La."

The Inn Keeper's Wife and Daughter taking care of the Don after being beaten and bruised.

'We did have a book about the 'Bermuda triangle', but it mysteriously disappeared.'

Wrong shelf.

'Psst - we're looking for material that's totally inappropriate for our age. Can you help us out?'

"Hello, I am Robinson Crusoe. What's your name?"

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

The Bookworm

Reading my Critics

Characters jumping out of a book.

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

Günter Grass

Meanwhile, in Florida: Little Free Library/Little Free Firearms

"So when my dad said I couldn't have a dog..."

'I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore.'

Isabel Allende

Jack London

'I need to read five books this weekend to graduate - any suggestions?'

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

Don Quixote

Alice Through the Looking Glass - The Garden of Live Flowers.

Coronavirus Windmills

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

Robinson Crusoe's blog.

Actual Extent Of Doug's Off - Road Adventures (Touching the kerb)

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

'1001 things to do whilst waiting to get on the internet.'

Sumo Love.

Writer: Humour and Tragedy.

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

"Well, sir, it looks like things are getting pretty serious for Peter and Pauline."

I don't want a story that helps kids make sense of the world – I want a world that lets kids just enjoy a nonsense story.