Wartime Stories Lover Gifts

"Hello, Mom – guess who they're taking!"

"I know we just met, but all I got is a twenty-four-hour pass!"

Old Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

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

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

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

Bee to othe: 'You knew I was a workaholic when we first met.'

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

'No, I didn't know it was hunting season - why do you ask?'

"He reports to Grand Central Palace tomorrow."

Bedtime in Ancient Greece

"Oh I remember, it was a particularly cold day and your daddy whispered sweet nothings in my ear. It gave me such a warm feeling inside that I knew he was the one!"

"Did the cow that jumped over the moon have NASA funding?"

"Figure it out, Sherlock! I'm a lovebird. You're a lovebird. We're cooped-up together in this cage 24 hours a day! Sooner or later it was bound to happen."

This is our 36th nap today - I can't read you a bedtime story EVERY time.

"Let's play hide-and-I-read-my-book."

'Can you read this one for me? I have a book report on it tomorrow.'

Siegfried Sassoon

"I'm more of a day owl."

"I guess that pretty well debunks the fruits and vegetables are good for you myth."

Your Country Needs MOO!

'I'm so glad this bedtime story comes in audio.'

"Most of the time, war...it makes no sense. A lot of times, we'd hear artillery whistling over our heads. But really, you can't move. You just wait...and wait...until it hits...and hope it isn't hitting you."

"When the evil witch pushes the children into the oven, .... that's just a metaphor for putting them in the microwave"

Today's Rapunzel

'These days,' she says, 'nothing gets a rise out of him.'

"With the quarantine over, I decided to dig a hold in the basement!"

Get Ahead

Tea and Sugar Rationing

"Mother, I'd like you to meet a member of the armed forces."

'I couldn't put the book down... I had peanut butter and jelly on my hands!'

The real reason the Christmas Truce didn't last.

"Stop asking so many questions, or it's right back to Books on Tape for you."

For the War Inventions Board. The Armoured Bayonet-curler for the Spoiling the Temper of the Enemy's Steel

The Force of Example.