![]() ![]() Then he takes a long, long time to return. ![]() The dad is off to the shops to get some more milk. Anyway, in the evening, the dad and the kids use up all the milk making hot chocolate because they miss mum (another cool thing to put in a children's book, that it's normal for the kids to miss their mum and to experience those kinds of emotions,) and there's no milk for breakfast. It's a cool little twist for a children's book, normalising the idea that a mum can have a pretty awesome career as well as a family. Anyway, enough of that.įortunately, the Milk opens with the dad character being left in charge of his son and daughter while their mum (presumably, a scientist,) leaves for a few days because she has to go to a conference to present a paper on lizards. Fortunately, the Milk is a fun and twisty novel for kids, written and illustrated by the same pair who were responsible for Coraline and The Graveyard Book. And, of course, Neil Gaiman has written extensively for adults, writing the Sandman comic, as well as novels like American Gods, Neverwhere, and co-authoring Good Omens with Terry Pratchett just to name a few. ![]() What do you get when you pick up a book and it's about a kid whose mum is away, his dad is in charge and the all too familiar scenario of the household running out of milk? A rollicking adventure featuring time travel, a hot air balloon piloted by a stegosaurus who also just happens to be a professor, some aliens, intergalactic police, vampires (or well, wumpires,) and some, uh ponies. ![]()
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