Tale Enthusiast Gifts

Tall tales and Short stories

Kid reading Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' as Dad brings in 'The Three Bears'.

'The results won't be permanent unless you promise to stop fibbing.'

Read!

"Well did he?"

Fishing Tales

Audio Books

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

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

The Tale of the Tape of the Tail.

Reasonableman

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

Fishing Boat Derby

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

Paul Bunyan gets the leg-lengthening Operation

"Goodness! These tomatoes look so good!"

"That's right kiddo, I'm one of the original band members of the Musicians of Bremen..."

'I'm a writer.' - 'What a coincidence, I'm a reader.'

'Hello room service - can you come and tuck me in and read me a story please'

'All this is nuthin! There was one yeaw up noth...when it snowed fah two yeaws! I had t'dig down ten feet t'haul in my lobstah traps.'

Pun on Excalibur - Swiss Army knife appears from the lake.

Men reading Tall Stories, and Short Stories in a Library

"Yes, I was using my mobile whilst driving... I was calling the police to tell them I was chasing a gang of bank robbers!"

Men discussing a book on a chat show

"At long last, Wyatt, our dream has come true and we are within reach of the legendary toast fields of the Sierra Madre."

'Well, by golly! Martha's right, I did make those doors a touch too low.'

"Pecos Bildungsroman"

"It's post-gingerbread."

"So it was a performance enhancing drug."

Proceedings of the club

Meet the pop-up author.

A Salmon Lie

Captain Eddie's New Boat:'The insurance company laughed last year when I insisted on adding Kraken coverage.'

"'Moby-Dick'? Again?"

Don Quixote knocking over a propeller.