There was something very good about this book. I noticed that it had brilliant pictures in it – even on the Kindle! – and Mum said I could go on the iPad if I wanted to draw a front cover for the book. I was bored, so Mum let me borrow her Kindle to read a book that was making her laugh, called, ‘Fortunately, the Milk…’ by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Chris Riddell. That is, indeed, what I was planning on doing. ‘BUT,’ she said, ‘Don’t think you’re going to be lazing around watching TV and playing on the computer all day.’ My mum doesn’t always believe me when I say I’m sick, but my sister was sick yesterday so Mum said I could stay off school. Hello and welcome to Celebration of Books! I’m Sarah, a thirty-something bookstore community outreach liaison at an independent bookstore in the Philadelphia suburbs.A review by my 9 y-o son, described by the utterly lovely Neil Gaiman as the 'best review ever': So if you love a book that is adventurous and exciting, if you are between the ages of 8 and 12, then please, take a look at Fortunately, the Milk, I bet you’ll enjoy it more than me.Ĭlick this image to visit the book page on my Bookshop page! Maybe that’s a commentary on the book, maybe that’s a commentary on me, I honestly don’t know. It’s full of adventure, time traveling dinosaurs, pirates, a talking volcano, ponies, all sorts of mischief and mayhem.īut for some reason, I didn’t enjoy the adventure. Fortunately, the Milk is the story a dad recounts for his two children as an explanation of why it took him so long to pick up milk for their breakfast cereal one morning. I’m not sure why, I felt like I was in the right mood/mindset to do so, but for some reason, I just didn’t giggle, not once. Young children will find it absolutely hysterical. This book is, by all accounts, hilarious. My coworker would probably faux-smack me for saying it, but alas, I think it’s true. The reader in me? Well, I’m getting kind of tired of Neil Gaiman. The artist in me loves this book for Skottie Young’s illustrations. The elementary school teacher in me loves this book – it would make the absolute perfect read-aloud for any class from 2nd to 4th grade. And then something odd happened.”Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road.” … “Hullo,” I said to myself. “I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: thummthumm. This book was recommended to me by a customer at the bookstore – and when I realized the illustrations were done by one of my favorite graphic novel artists, Skottie Young, I was sold.

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