Storytelling Appreciator Gifts

Ali Baba- Cover Design for Proposed Edition of The Forty Thieves

Trilby - 'Et maintenant dors, ma mignonne!'

We just want to be a real boy! Pinocchio. Ikea. Swedish Folktale.

'Actually I was hoping to meet a knight in shining armour!'

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Victor Hugo

"Feel free to take notes."

'Where was the TSA?'

'You're going to have your future cut out for you, reading bedtime stories.'

Audio Books

"Finally, the alphabet is paying off."

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

"How was I supposed to know that the apple was a controlled substance?"

Grizzly bears are gregarious animals.

"Nice epic battle between good and evil!"

'Dad's bedtime story was decent, but the special effects were non-existent.'

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

Ant story: 'and so they worked all day and they worked all night and then they worked some more, the end.'

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

"And that's when the therapist suggested… exposure therapy!"

See, Catty-O? I told you dinner was included with admission.

'I've had the place gob-stopper-dashed.'

This is the new Director's Cut version of Hansel and Gretel...with additional scenes and three alternative endings!!!

'You were great at 'Daniel in the Lion's Den!' -- I'd sure like to hear you do 'The Three Little Pigs' sometime!'

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

A Witch Consults Her Magic Mirror

"This is what's known as a book."

"I'm sad to hear everybody lived happily ever after. That means no sequels to this story."

Hansel and Gretal

"It's true, mommy...the chocolate bunny attacked me - it was self-defense!"

'And the wicked stepmother looked into her smartphone and said, "Selfie, selfie in my face, who's the fairest in this place?"

Cinderella and Charming the Clown

"What did Jesus order?"

"You're writing a memoir? You're seven years old. Do you honestly think you can capture the interest of readers with such a short—wait, is that my name?!"