Quirky Librarian Gifts

Real Life Bookshop.

Hard to reach books.

Do it yourself books.

'Home Schooling'

Graffiti artists signs his memoirs in bookshop.

Dummies for Dummies.

'That's right...his appendix...and it's pure dynamite! Don't you see? It'll be the ultimate insider celebrity memoir!'

"Hypochondriac's handbook. A little passion project I'm working on;, or, rather, I would be working on."

Half-A**ed Publishing Presents...

Rare Books / Exceedingly Rare Books / Never Published Books

Building Books.

'Dad demonstrates for an hour and then we go home - what happens in your swimming lessons?'

"Well, he's a squirrel, so yes, he's a hoarder, but that does not help come Winter: he hoards books, not nuts!"

Man looks worried, as his fellow castaway reads book: 'Cannibalism for Dummies'.

"No, no, that's my copy of 'Being and Time'—look at the teeth marks along 'Heidegger'."

'Think Basics.'

"You know, it's a picture book. Needless to say, it doesn't have a lot of narrative scope."

"Yuck! Som'one left their nose in this book!"

New From Why? Books

"I'll take this Feng Shui for Cats. And spare me the eye-rolls, please."

The world of interpersonal relationships was dealt a blow today when John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, finally came out of the closet. In other news...

Field guide to North American plumbers

"So, your friend Victor's a doctor?"

Kid reader to librarian about 'Parenting' book: 'This didn't tell me anything about how to deal with parents.'

The Seven Habits of Highly Obsessively Compulsive People

"Do you have 'The Oxford Companion to Real Estate'?"

Ventriloquism for Gummies

'Your entire library consists of nothing but TV Guides bound in Corinthian leather?'

'They canceled school today -- the teacher couldn't find her hand puppets.'

Clearance.

"The classics can be so intimidating."

Sado-masochists reading in bed.

A teacher sits in front of a blackboard that advertises various school subjects as being for sale.

Caricature of a professor