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A review by aceinit
Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
5.0
If you have children, buy this book and read it to them. Or let them read it themselves. If you don't have children, buy this book and read it anyway.
Gaiman has crafted a wonderful tale of a father who goes out one morning to buy milk for his children's cereal and disappears for much longer than expected. When he finally returns home, his children are, of course, curious as to where he's been and why it took so long just to get milk. Surely, he ran into a friend on the way home and spent too long wasting time.
Not so! says the father. What really happened, he assures his son and daughter, was a journey that involves alien abduction, pirates, a stegosaurus and his time-traveling Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier (that's a hot air balloon to us "future" folks), angry volcano gods, and ponies. And that's only the first half of the story.
Gaiman pokes good-natured fun at "handsome, misunderstood" vampires, vampires with bad European accents, lawn flamingos, commemorative plates, and never once lets this colorful, quirky narrative sag. There is time travel, there are temporal anomalies, and there are space police of a surprising nature that is sure to delight, all of which combine for one heck of a journey that may or may not result in the end of the universe as we know it.
(Whew! What an adventure! It's almost too amazing to be true!)
"Fortunately, the Milk," is a great read for all ages, illustrated (for American readers) by the magnificent Skottie Young. Buy it for your kids, and be prepared to enjoy it every bit as much as they will.
Gaiman has crafted a wonderful tale of a father who goes out one morning to buy milk for his children's cereal and disappears for much longer than expected. When he finally returns home, his children are, of course, curious as to where he's been and why it took so long just to get milk. Surely, he ran into a friend on the way home and spent too long wasting time.
Not so! says the father. What really happened, he assures his son and daughter, was a journey that involves alien abduction, pirates, a stegosaurus and his time-traveling Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier (that's a hot air balloon to us "future" folks), angry volcano gods, and ponies. And that's only the first half of the story.
Gaiman pokes good-natured fun at "handsome, misunderstood" vampires, vampires with bad European accents, lawn flamingos, commemorative plates, and never once lets this colorful, quirky narrative sag. There is time travel, there are temporal anomalies, and there are space police of a surprising nature that is sure to delight, all of which combine for one heck of a journey that may or may not result in the end of the universe as we know it.
(Whew! What an adventure! It's almost too amazing to be true!)
"Fortunately, the Milk," is a great read for all ages, illustrated (for American readers) by the magnificent Skottie Young. Buy it for your kids, and be prepared to enjoy it every bit as much as they will.