Storytime Lovers Gifts

Humpty dumpty, the wall and the banana peel.

"Abuelo, can we read the one about social security reforms again?"

"We wouldn't have had to come here if Goldilocks hadn't stolen our porridge!"

"We learn an important lesson from all this - from curds and whey, and pease porridge, and bread and honey. Eat natural foods."

Big book of memes

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

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

"...and the humans turned Neville into 80,000 toothpicks..."

The Poky Little Pupa.

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

'First the dinosaurs, now this...'

Little Princess.

Old Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

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

"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."

"Oh,oh - here comes quality time again."

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

"The bear whose porridge was too hot...did he sue?"

'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?'

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

Hansel and Gretel Day School.

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

"Only one pailful? Did they have water restrictions like we do?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"What you find 'boring' spies from all over the world would find extremely interesting."

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

I don't want a story that helps kids make sense of the world – I want a world that lets kids just enjoy a nonsense story.