Youthful Adventurers Gifts

I say, Billy, 'ere's a gipsy! Let's 'ave our fortins telled!

Last day of school.

"This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I told you to go outside and play."

"Look Mommy, hat!"

"Can you make me look like Wolverine?"

"Would you like some wings?"

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

Only a penny! A sensible and ingenious toy for children.

October 11, 2009: History is made when 8-year-old Tommy Wurtner becomes the first child to enter space.

Child driving a toy car

Kids with Fish Balloons

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'This is a good time to be young, son. Look at all the opportunities you have in front of you...you can help sole the problems of the environment, poverty,civil rights....'

Mistaken baby ducks.

'I know he followed you home but you can't keep him.'

Children arguing over the name of a fish

"Why did I start the story with 'Twice upon a time?' Because it's a sequel."

"This is crazy! We've been here only 10 minutes, we've spent all our money, and we've got nothing to show for it!"

'You must all promise never to divulge what you are about to see.'

"If nothing else, school has prepared me for a lifetime of backpacking."

'I'm trying to get my competence and my confidence in the same place.'

Fossil hunting

Childhood

"So you dreamed you were an adult?"

Little Pink Girl and Her Pink Horse

"Kids."

Swinging on the Chandelier

Local, free-range bug juice.

'It's all right, miss, I'm only loking for our cricket-ball!'

'Can we skip to the part where I charge with a light saber?'

The First National Sand Bank.

"This is it? No video?"

Flava Superba

Kid in pedal police car pulling over a kid on a trike

Student to kid: 'School first, then Mount Everest.'