Summer Story Lover Gifts

Try out this summer's hot novels in a beach setting

On holiday.

'Why couldn't you just give him a bucket and shovel?'

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

Bad fake tan day.

Bring your own inflatable.

"Once upon a time, there was a princess who wasn't about to take anyone's sh*t."

Packed boats of families on a seaside holidays

The end of summer is near and you still haven't made plans

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

'So Captain Ahab, I put it to you that you were deliberately stalking my client!'

Kid to mom: 'Tell me again about the time you helped fortress a city, subdue hostile fire and got home and baked us all raspberry strudels.'

it my imagination or is it getting warmer?"

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

His New Grillfriend

'I love it here. It really floats my boat.'

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

"I just never 'think I can' anymore."

"That dream catcher may be working a little too well."

'Oh, no - I have to read each tentacle - that'll be extra, of course.'

"Jeepers, I didn't know anything could gets so hot!"

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

Mother pours bubble bath into child's plastic pool

"I got tired of 'Moby-Dick' taunting me from my bookshelf, so I put it on my Kindle and haven't thought of it since."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mermaid Art

"Come and get it!"

"I'll wear a top when you do."

Toys were me: lessons learned never growing up

'Mum...Dad's barbecued his face again.'

'Your wife wants to know if she should get a new propane tank for the barbecue.'

'Ahh...now there's a man who understands women.'

"Now here's a tale that'll make you hair stand on end"

Go jump in the lake!

"What did you just say? Did you just say 'Christmas'?!!"