The Birthday

by Bill Adler Jr.

The Birthday is a delightful short story that parents will enjoy reading to their children as much as children will enjoy hearing. It's about a mailman in a small town in Maine, who, because he decided to break the rules and interfere with the mail, turns what might have been a very unhappy birthday for a little girl into a wonderful day. The Birthday is a magical birthday tale, filled with the unexpected. The Birthday is by Bill Adler, Jr., who has written over a dozen books including Baby-English (available as a Kindle book), 365 Things to Do With Your Kids Before They're Too Old to Enjoy Them, Tell Me a Fairy Tale, Kids' Email from Camp, and How to Negotiate Like a Child.

11 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 16, 2008

About the author

Bill Adler Jr. is an American writer living in Tokyo.

He's the author of Outwitting Squirrels (The Wall Street Journal: "A masterpiece"; Boing Boing: "One of the funniest books I've ever read"), Boys and Their Toys: Understanding Men by Understanding Their Relations With Gadgets, Tell Me a Fairy Tale: A Parent's Guide to Telling Mythical and Magical Stories, and No Time to Say Goodbye, a time travel novella, and other books.