Fortunately, the Milk ~ Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell

Perhaps you think children’s books are only for children? If so, you are missing out on the pleasure of all of the wonderful books which have been created since you grew up. Books which just weren’t available to you when you were a kid, so why should today’s kids get all the fun?

Personally, I love many children’s books, and have several favourite authors who write (or wrote) primarily for children.

In Fortunately, the Milk, Neil Gaiman has teamed up with wonderful illustrator Chris Riddell to create a zany book about the string of incredible adventures which the children’s father claims happened to him when he just went out to buy a carton of milk for their breakfast. The father, as drawn by Riddell, has a suspiciously similar look to Neil Gaiman himself.

Their father tells them that he was just coming back from the shop, milk in hand, when he was sucked up by a tractor beam from a flying saucer crewed by green blobby aliens… And it goes on from there. Pirates? Intelligent dinosaurs? Idol worshippers? Volcano gods? Vampires? Yep. Oh, and time travel, too. With wormholes.

Chris Riddell’s wonderful drawings are a delight, and really make the book what it is.

Highly recommended. Buy a copy to give it to your kids. Or your grandchildren. But make sure you read it first! (Best of all, read it aloud to the kids!).

Professor Steg’s floating time machine (illustration by Chris Riddell)

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