Storytime Gifts

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

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

''...And the Prince and Princess lived happily ever after, but elsewhere, fighting continued.''

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

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

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

Swan Fairy Tales

"Just let her believe in fairies a little while longer."

The Poky Little Pupa.

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

"No sweetie, it’s a beurk not a book."

'First the dinosaurs, now this...'

Church Library - Pop-Up Books

Little Princess.

Birds reading over woman's shoulder

'Put some feeling into it. I can't tell the difference between the lion and the mouse.'

Old Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

"Let's see. Seuss... Seuss... Here we go. That's a medium box of bagels and lox and a pop on the rocks by seven o' clock."

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

"Go figure: nobody wanted to kiss me when I was an ugly prince, but now, somehow, pretty girls are lining up!"

'Tell us the story of Moses again -- I like the chase scene!'

"Because he's illiterate. That's why I have to read to him all the time."

'Is this one of those deals where the names have been changed to protect the innocent?'

'And you're telling me this, why?'

"Customers who bought 'The Three Little Pigs' also bought...."

'Hurray for indoor plumbing!'

"Mommy usually reads me a story, then slips me a twenty."

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

"After I fix your laptop, can I have a bedtime story?"

'We're out of water, Jack. Time to go back up the hill to fetch a pail.'

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

'Come on, girl! I know you can do it! Jump over the moon!'

'I wonder how Curious George fits into all this?'

'It doesn't say what she had for dessert on Thanksgiving. It just says she made a coach out of her pumpkin.'

Bedtime in Ancient Greece