Working-class Stories Reader Gifts

Two Chimney Sweeps.

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

'Are you sure I should read my book report to the class? --�It's PG-13.'

Gen-Next Library

Push Push Push: sign on maternity ward doors.

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

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

"First they came for the horoscope and the crossword and I did nothing. Then they came for the cartoonists and there was no-one left to satirise it."

'I don't like reading on screen, so I'm printing the internet to look at it later.'

Mad Hatter's tea party.

'Bront?saurus.'

"At least she's reading."

'I'm pretty sleepy tonight, Dad - could we just skip ahead to the chase scene?'

Mr. Stryver at Tellson's Bank

'I can't remember the title, but it began, 'Once upon a time'...'

Modern History: Last Year/Last Month/Last Week/Yesterday.

Jane Austen

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

'What are you staring at? . . . Please save me from the English majors.'

"Think about the perks. You learn to read, you get a pre-approved library card!"

A new meaning in the Roman

'My battery is dead. How does it end?'

"Poor kid, his parents gave him a book for Christmas."

Curate talking to miners

"Books are tricky. You can't text with a text book and you can't call with a phone book!"

Trilby - 'Hast thou found me, o mine enemy?'

"The butler did it!"

'I'm looking for something not too heavy.'

'Oh darling, it is not an ibook, it is only a book.'

The ghost's walk

My aunt astonishes me

Kid Reads "The Little Tibetan Book Of The Dead"