Fortunately, the Milk audiobook

A review by my 9 y-o son, described by the utterly lovely Neil Gaiman as the 'best review ever':Today I was sick. 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. ‘BUT,’ she said, ‘Don’t think you’re going to be lazing around watching TV and playing on the computer all day.’That was bad news. That is, indeed, what I was planning on doing. :( 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. 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 did. Look… (you can see the images at: http://book-walrus.com/book-review-fo...)There was something very good about this book. It was an ‘enhanced edition’ which means that the writer reads the book out loud to you while you read it! This writer is a good reader and he didn’t sound at all like the dalek voice that normally comes out of the Kindle. Mum said I could stay on the iPad if I wanted to draw a picture of the writer reading the book. But I can’t draw good faces so I drew a picture of the Kindle talking. Then I labeled it ‘Kindle’ because Mum asked what it was. (you can see the images at: http://book-walrus.com/book-review-fo...)I started to read. This is me reading. And no. My face is NOT the book. (you can see the images at: http://book-walrus.com/book-review-fo...)Everyone should read this book. It will make everybody laugh. It is good and very clever. The best thing is that it goes backwards and forwards in time with the Dad meeting himself all over the place in the past and in the future and in crazy wormholes. (you can see the images at: http://book-walrus.com/book-review-fo...) It has good characters. The dad is a funny dad. I also like the brother and sister because they are not stupid. They ask the dad clever questions to try and trap him, but he is good at wiggling out of trouble.I think this is a very good book and it deserves 5 stars, which I have drawn here (because it meant I could stay on the iPad for longer. :) ) (you can see the images at: http://book-walrus.com/book-review-fo...One day I would like to write books as good as ‘Fortunately, The Milk…’ and draw pictures as good as this too.

Fortunately, I read this book! HOW MUCH FUN AN HOUR CAN BE Quite funny, entertaining and it's a really quick read.What else can you ask?I did it on an hour......And for that hour I had such wonderful time. In an hour I was lost in time, meeting fantastic characters and laughing. PERFECT COLLABORATIVE TEAM If you decide to read it, keep in mind that it's a short story oriented for children, so please, don't harm the rating of this sweet book just because you were expecting "Neil Gaiman, the great mind behind Sandman and American Gods". He is not here......BUT......You will find "Neil Gaiman, the wonderful dad that wrote a story to entertain for an hour to his children and the children of all the world." Along with Neil Gaiman, in here you will find the delicious art of Scottie Young, talented artist famous for his work on the Marvel's graphic novel adaptations of the OZ books by L. Frank Baum, that he worked there with Eric Shanower. (By the way, you can check on my shelves of Goodreads, you will find reviews of all those books too). Gaiman and Young are a wonderful team where the words of Neil make a perfect amalgam to the drawings of Scottie. I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE Wacky characters along with time travel......wonderful combination!I won't spoil anything (don't worry! Geez!), I just want to comment that if you ever been able to contain yourselves of reading aloud the lines of the wumpires (yes, you read correctly...wumpires), well I just can say that you have more selfcontrol than me! Because I just have to say aloud those phrases with my best imitation of the expected accent! Oh, yes, I had to do it. And I'm not ashamed of admit it!Keep loyal to your wumpires! Be proud!For an hour, Neil and Scottie take us to a funny wacky fantasy adventure, but at the end, they let you to decide if all was lie or not. I chose to believe! Oh, yes!......life is too short for not believing in fantasy at least for an hour.If you can't being a kid again at least for an hour and laughing with a sweet story like this one, geez, please look for an empty grave and jump in there, you are already dead and nobody told you! Oh, if you are of the ones that skip the final credits, well, you will miss something really funny. (Nope, I won't tell, it's not my fault that you were in such hurry to leave the book!)Good thing that I never skip that, like in the movies, that if you are too eager to leave the theater and you can miss a final scene. (I wonder what all those people do, rushing out once the credits started to roll. Do they find a cure to the cancer? Solving the world hunger? Getting world peace? Nope, I don't think so, since we still have all those troubles)So, getting back to the final credits, in this book, read them or you will miss the final joke. If you don't get it, please do some memory tests, since you have to get it, you just read it less than hour ago! Now, I leave, I have to go to the market for some milk!

Five bucks on Gaiman throwing darts at an idea-board.Why? Maybe cause of the time traveling dinosaurs, unicorns, wumpires and aliens.For such a decidedly whimsical book, it was unexpectedly fabulous. Two kids are left home alone with dad for a weekend while scientist-mom is at a conference (unexpectedly great reason for mom to be gone for the week!). Only, when it comes time for breakfast...the kids discover that there's no milk for their cereal.Their dad bravely ventures forth to pick up some from the corner store...and he's gone an awfully long time. So long that the kids demand an explanation when he returns. And, their dad opens his mouth...and this wonderful tale spills out. It was hilarious, fun and an all-around delight. Plus, the illustrations were adorable.YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat @miranda_reads

Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend. A quirky tale of time travelling dinosaurs, blood sucking wumpires (yes, wumpires) and enthusiastic pirates, made even more amusing by an abundance of winsome illustrations.

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Milk!! I think author has a great love for milk. :)This book is about a father who buys milk for his children. And after that, he gets trapped in a space-time continuum by aliens who wants to re-model the planet Earth and wants permission from him to do so as he is a representative of planet Earth. Lol! Father is telling his children the story of how he gets back to present-time in the whole book. FEELINGS WHILE READING It's a very delightful read. I enjoyed it. Really liked the adventures. This fact is very odd for me that if the aliens want to re-model the planet Earth then why the heck they want permission.. lol!My favourite scene in book was when the Father met the king of Volcanos. Hahaha.... really enjoyed that scene. ONE THING I COULDN'T GET I couldn't get it as author didn't mention it well. He just mentioned it in illustration. (view spoiler)[ In the ending, children felt that their father was lying about his adventures as they remembered the similarities between their father's story and their paintings. My problem is:Father was actually lying about it as he got late in coming or he was telling the truth? I have a very confused feeling about it. (hide spoiler)] Regardless, it is a delightful read. Especially for children. But it was a fun read for me also. I will must read his other works too. He looked like he remembered that, without milk, he couldn’t have his tea. He had his “no tea” face P.S.I HATE tea, for the record! But my whole family love it. Except for me. Very strange.February 4, 2017

Why did Dad take so long on his errand to go grab a bottle of milk for the breakfast cereal?Well, he'll tell you.The answer is convoluted and hilarious, involving a stegosaurus professor in a hot air balloon with a time machine, aliens, pirates, volcanos, ocean piranhas, vampires wumpires, and much, much more.His two kids are pretty dubious but willing to go along with it for the most part ("Hang on. Piranhas are a freshwater fish. What are they doing in the sea?"). And occasionally they have requests for ponies or "handsome, misunderstood wumpires" to be in the story. It's a fun children's or early middle-grade story, and the illustrations absolutely make it. This would be a great read-aloud book for kids who like wildly imaginative adventures. Watch out for those ocean piranhas!

Prava, pravcata dečija knjiga. Ako niste u stanju da se vratite u najbezbrižnije godine svog detinjstva, onda čitajte ovu knjižicu na ličnu odgovornost. Ilustracije su fantastične, kao i uvek kada Kris Ridl umeša svoje prste u Gejmenove specijalitete. Nisam pametna da li dam 4 ili 5 zvezdica, a ovaj smotani Goodreads još uvek nam ne da koristimo pola zvezdaje, pa neka bude 4.