Quizzical Reader Gifts

"Do you have any why-to books?"

"She loves poorly translated Russian authors … really odd."

Trivia/Great Literature.

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

'Thanks to the internet it is now possible to be extremely well-informed and completely wrong at the same time!'

Great British Eccentrics.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Bookstore, the Politically Incorrect Guide to You.

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

"It's felt to be his most thought provoking work."

Do Guns Kill?

"Daddy, why do people pull round pizza from square boxes and cut them into triangles before they eat them?"

'If it 'tells' the time, why do I have to look at it?'

'Oddly enough you're the third person to buy that today!'

Idle parts

"When will I be old enough to have an inner child?"

Ostrich Curoisities

Cat and fishing instruction

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

Bug reading book has antennae that are lights.

'This book thing, Mum, where do I plug it in?'

'But why do you want to transmute asparagus into cotton?'

Bird reading '1001 pickup lines' - 'I'm getting ready for mating season.'

'He's dyslexic!'

Sex Section in the Library

Cat reading Rommel biography.

What's the antidote for wheat germ?

The Curious George pop-down book

'Mummy, what's a daddy one of those called?'

Ransom Library. Oh, that's just Henry … He's a history buff. Wild West.

Wordplay: Dilemma.

The Farmer Sutra.

1,000 places to see after you die by Shirley Maclaine.

"So, you're telling me that you can't return, 'How to be a secret agent' because the final chapter instructed you to eat it after reading?"

'Good book?'