World Dictionary Day Gifts

Roget's Pet

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

"You're going to hate yourself."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

First Novels.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Novel

J. R. R. Tolkien

Isabel Allende

It was the best of times, it was the wasrtn blanfil trmsl... It was the bnarfy foodel pook. Arghh! Darn reader's block.

'It's the first animal in their dictionary, Inter-Planetary Publishing Protocol is to always list the most intelligent lifeform first...'

Nevermore. You don't have to use "air quoths" every time.

To read or not to read?

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"I've just invented the question mark."

In an unprecedented occurrence, Noah Webster fails his vocabulary test.

'The Lemming Book Store'

Crossword Dictionary Bookstore

Catalogue of little books.

'Have you got the book 'After the end of the world'?'

'It was a play on words...and a bad one at that!'

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

Library

Marcel Proust

"Hemingway! Is he any good?"

Wildlife A-Z: 'Where the heck are zebras?'

"Before the library cuts I was well-read now I just have ill-informed opinions."

Men reading Tall Stories, and Short Stories in a Library

Book market

Universe of reading

'Yes, sure, certainly, you bet, of course, yeah, right, yep....'