I left in a huff and a grumble, mumbling things about prescription lenses and Vampire Weekend being a good band anyway. She gave two ineffectual chews of something. 'But how could they? Don't they know that I have been a fan of his since the Sandman days, before he was 'cool'?' 'All the hipsters have already bought out our entire stock' she replied.

She rolled her eyes so far back that I thought for a moment she was inspecting her own sinus cavities. 'Do you have Neil Gaiman's new book, 'Fortunately, the Milk'?' 'Excuse me,' I said to the nearest droopy-eyed sales attendant. I looked high and low for Neil's book, but all that was there were stacks of Paranormal Romance as far as I could see. So I popped on my favourite astronaut t-shirt and caught the bus to my local bookstore, Snuffin and Kooks. It was a rainy morning and I felt like reading Neil's new book 'Fortunately, the Milk'. One day I would like to write books as good as ‘Fortunately, The Milk…’ and draw pictures as good as this too. 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. They ask the dad clever questions to try and trap him, but he is good at wiggling out of trouble. I also like the brother and sister because they are not stupid. 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. My face is NOT the book.Įveryone should read this book. Then I labeled it ‘Kindle’ because Mum asked what it was. But I can’t draw good faces so I drew a picture of the Kindle talking.

Mum said I could stay on the iPad if I wanted to draw a picture of the writer reading the 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. 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. A review by my 9 y-o son, described by the utterly lovely Neil Gaiman as the 'best review ever':

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