Playful Storytelling Aficionado Mugs

A chicken looks at a computer screen that reads "Y2K is coming! Y2K is coming!!".

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

'Where was the TSA?'

'You're going to have your future cut out for you, reading bedtime stories.'

"Finally, the alphabet is paying off."

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

Grizzly bears are gregarious animals.

Zombies.

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

"The bear whose porridge was too hot...did he sue?"

"And that's when the therapist suggested… exposure therapy!"

'You were great at 'Daniel in the Lion's Den!' -- I'd sure like to hear you do 'The Three Little Pigs' sometime!'

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

See, Catty-O? I told you dinner was included with admission.

This is the new Director's Cut version of Hansel and Gretel...with additional scenes and three alternative endings!!!

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Jacques et Jille

"You're writing a memoir? You're seven years old. Do you honestly think you can capture the interest of readers with such a short—wait, is that my name?!"

Cinderella and Charming the Clown

'And the wicked stepmother looked into her smartphone and said, "Selfie, selfie in my face, who's the fairest in this place?"

"It's true, mommy...the chocolate bunny attacked me - it was self-defense!"

Hansel and Gretal

Alberich steals the gold

Daughters at Bedtime

"I'll bet she was worn out by the end of teacher's meeting day."

"Personally, I loved your novel. Unfortunately, our e-book editor says it just doesn't work on the little screen!"

"I was kicked out from another kid's bed. Do you mind if I crash under yours for awhile?"

"We started losing money right around the time we decided to just lazily remake old movies with the race or gender of the main character switched from the original." "We're burning through cash and we urgently need to course correct and try something different." "So we're going to make fresh stories with new and interesting characters?" "What?" "No."

Don Quichotte

"He's dumbing down the sermons again."

Drug Testing Unit: 'Uh Oh!'

Reading in the family.

"So, kids, you should all be thankful we don't live during a potato famine. Especially you, Jimmy."