Storybooks Mugs

'If straw and sticks don't appeal, I do have something in brick that might interest you.'

"Toto, I have a feeling we're not at the Kansas State Fair anymore!"

The Re-Giving Tree

"Where do you keep the non-educational stuff?"

Yellow brick road congestion.

'Someone's hacked into my hard drive and dumped everything!'

"...and within the next few hours, this huge trough will sweep in from the west."

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

Shepherd and eurydice

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

"What did you say about the health of my gut biome?"

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

Occu-Pie Mars

"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect something- I guess I was a bit hasty throwing that together in 144."

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

I should be a writer when I grow up...

'Couldn't Peter claim Mr. McGregor's garden was an 'attractive nuisance?'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Go ahead and eat her, she's a pain in the a**."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"Thor! I am Thor! Ha. Just kidding. I'm Tom the Seagull."

"Now, were those friends of your Gettys or Gottis?"

"You're very interesting, for a civilian."

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

If you bathe a skunk in tomato juice, it will smell like a dog. A bird in the hand is better than two in your shorts. Never wear aqua after Thanksgiving. Unconventional wisdom.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. It's always my intention to leave you laughing."

"I can't protect you from everything, but I can read you stories that make you believe I can protect you from everything."

"I think the most rewarding part of caring for elderly parents is when they call you because they don't want to bother the 9-1-1 people."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

"What's that? I asked for a teal lichen. That's a brown thread. Are you trying to upset me?"