Storytelling Ace Gifts

'This scholarship application is great. You must have received an A in creative writing.'

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

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

'I don't believe it. Five minutes after he gets the darn thing, he has an arrest!'

A Hole in the Dike

Lady of the bath...

"Brilliant report, I can't tell where the facts and the fiction begins"

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

"First, I sent a rocket of a drive down the fairway, then I took the 7-iron, put that ball on the green...a hundred and eighty yards if it was an inch..."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

"On New Year's Eve, Clement and I stayed up all night drinking. Tea, of course."

'You're doing a play in kindergarten?'

'Hey, wait a minute...Apples aren't indigenous to this geopraphical region.'

Janey then realized that babysitting isn't easy...

'This goes way beyond just keeping the flies off me...I'm fighting crime now too!'

'Sometimes I wish we'd never told him he was adopted.'

Kirsten Johnson

"Skip the funny voices tonight—O.K., Dad?"

The Paper Route

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

Reading

Baby Bear.

"I can't tell you how it ended. That would ruin the sequel."

"Go on, say it again, 'I love you' in Armadillo."

"Am I looking happy or sad in the appropriate places?"

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

"Its my letter of resignation. I also turned it into a memoir."

"First order of business...no more memos beginning 'Once Upon a Time.'"

Three Witches from Macbeth

"Simon, I'm not really interested in your juvenilia."