Story Time Sleuth Gifts

"I have no idea why Stuart Little’s mother is human — don’t overthink it."

Swan Fairy Tales

Hansel and Gretel Day School.

'Sue didn't watch soap operas all the time. She also reads books'

"Well did he?"

'The police is looking for a teenager who reads books... I bet they'll never solve this case!'

Where the Wild Things Summer

"And what's the story behind the story?"

'How come the rabbit didn't have good luck with the foot?'

"It had an interesting emotional arc and some nice plot twists, but the heroine and subsidiary characters were unconvincing within the historical context."

"Can you read me a bedtime story about ponies, next time?"

". . . and they lived happily ever after. . . in an aspirational sort of way."

"You want me to explain how there were two doughnuts in the larder and now there is only one? Easy, it was too dark in there to see the second one."

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

Net Zero Superstitions

Egyptian Library: 'Every week you take out the same book, Anubis.'

'Because he was the one who had to milk her. That's why Jack traded the cow for a handful of beans.'

"Look, if it wasn’t me and it wasn’t you, who was doing all the snoring?!"

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

'Oh dear. My husband looks suspicious.'

I don't trust that guy.

"Sorry, I'm running late, I had to change Junior's bed-sheets: he found a little blond girl asleep in his bed this morning!"

Conflicting Reports

'Freddie, the Little Merger Mogul, didn't expect to have a monopoly right away...'

Noah falls asleep by counting animal pairs.

"Ancient times? Is that like when my grandmother was young?"

'The cow jumped over the Moon? -- What was SHE on?'

'It looks fishy to me.'

Reporter #2: plant.

'You really got to him with your birds and bees chat - now he wants flying lessons!'

Reporter at a crime scene.

"Put a bit more expression into it..." "We can't tell the difference between the elephant and the mouse!"