Just as successful, Children's Stories, intended for adults, is written in the form of droll tales for children.

It is a droll tale as Stanley Karnow tells it.

And you tell a droll tale.

Anguy often rode beside her; he was closer to her in age than any of them but Gendry, and he told her droll tales of the Dornish Marches.

In fact he had another droll tale himself.

After a successful foray into CGI with Arthur Christmas, Aardman returns to its stop-motion roots with this droll tale of Plasticine piracy.

Though a closing notice may soon be posted, this droll shaggy-dog tale of an aspiring songwriter, wide-eyed and innocent, abroad in the big city, is a good introduction to Kaufman's work.

Nevertheless, that twist allows his creator to unfold a very droll tale of male anxiety about female creative power.

In her opening and closing monologues, she tells droll tales about horrors at home.

"The Heat of the Story," the volume's finest, is a droll and touching tale of three women who, on a cold night, keep one another warm with stories of childhood and love.