Thrill-seeking Storyteller Gifts

Kid to mom about 'Little Red Riding Hood' story: 'You know, that would make one heck of an action flick.'

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

Very Difficult Conversations

"On New Year's Eve, Clement and I stayed up all night drinking. Tea, of course."

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

Kirsten Johnson

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

"Its my letter of resignation. I also turned it into a memoir."

'I'm sorry but my little boy, Jack, ruined them all today.'

Updated fairy tales - "Cinderella." Dating Service. It's not often we get a client looking for a specific shoe size.

We're looking for a quiet neighborhood where everyone feeds us because they all believe we belong to them.

Daughters at Bedtime

Baby Bear.

Reading

Gag - a graphic novel

Mephistopheles

Young Stephen King

"It's more relevant than some of the other theme parks we've been to."

Ted knew he had a bestseller. Now all he had to do was fill the middle bits in.

Purple Fairy

"Dear Mom and Dad: Thanks for the happy childhood. You've destroyed any chance I had of becoming a writer."

My Prince.

'Your imagination was so powerful he became real. It happens to me all the time.'

Noah Sent and Received the First Tweet

Snow white and the aliens.

The Battle of the Pictures.

I get my ideas on sale...

'Of course, it's your business, but I wouldn't ever start a resume with 'Once upon a time in a land far far away!''

"She then bit into the poison apple, hoping it would fend off the hostile takeover."

At Mary Higgins Clark's book club.

"You know, it's a picture book. Needless to say, it doesn't have a lot of narrative scope."

'Personally, I think your idea of writing nursery rhymes is dumb, Mother.'