Supper Storyteller Mugs

'This mandarin chicken is delicious, Dad. It tastes like you bought it yourself.'

Announcement at teatime

Late night teddy reading

'Please make us instruments of Thy peace, starting with Bucky Sims.'

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down, broke his crown and Jill said 'I told you so'."

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

"Everything on our menu uses organic, locally sourced, graveyard-to-table ingredients."

The Poky Little Pupa.

'She's just great with the children.'

'Read me the one about the ant and the obsessive-compulsive grasshopper.'

Now Simon would have nightmares about his mother's failing eyesight.

"So, when he says, 'What a good boy am I,' Jack is really reinforcing his self-esteem."

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

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

"I'm actually pretty ready for bed."

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

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

"And if that diamond ring don’t shine, Poppa will probably take it back to 47th Street and get something for your mother."

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

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

"She married and then divorced, and then she married and divorced, and then she married and lived happily ever after."

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

"When I was young, we personally prepared all the food for each and every meal!"

Why don't you ever like to spoon?

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

'Mary had a little lamb - with mint jelly.'

"Name your sources."

'Moses parted the water so the Isrealites could go across? You mean in the mud?'

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.

'I'm glad you're reading my night night story. Dad being a tax attorney only reads chapter 11.'

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

',,,and they all lived happily ever after, Now close your eyes and go to sleep'

"Bogeyman under your bed? Oh, no, sweetie, there's no room under there… unlike your closet."

Hot pot

"Why did I start the story with 'Twice upon a time?' Because it's a sequel."