Every page came out as a surprise with Young’s surreal illustrations. Though just black and white, the rendering of the art was really intricate, imaginative and expressive. The characters and illustrations are adorable and perfectly matches Gaiman’s writing. Young’s illustration s have this perfect balance of being adorable and being weird at the same time. Skottie Young’s illustrations and Neil Gaiman’s prose are a perfect combination. Neil Gaiman showed how ingenious he is to come up with a story from very simple things and tasks like, in this, getting a milk from the store for his children.Īnd of course, the illustrations! I’m a fan! I must say that this is is one of the best illustrations that I’ve seen. And as always, Neil Gaiman’s characters are unique and her their humor is spot on that will surely appeal to all ages. The pacing is controlled making the story working well with my imagination. Neil Gaiman’s writing is so immersing and so easy to read. That short span of time I spent reading this book is so worth it.

It is clever, witty and humorous! The kind that will drew you in. Neil Gaiman did not fail me with this book. With elements like time travel, a talking volcano, police dinosaurs, ponies, piranhas, dwarves to vampire, this book took me on an out of this world ride! But are they all lies or not? I would like believe, no! With each time, the milk takes the spotlight, a line of two taking note that’s making sure that it will reach his children. There were a lot of twists and turns and each adventure is connected to another. The stegosaurus has a time-traveling machine that when they used they were transported to different time-periods. The story moved from him being abducted by aliens but escaped only to be transported to a different time period when he was (almost) taken by pirates but saved by a stegosaurus on a Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier a.k.a. More than just the milk, he came back with a story that made his children raised their eyebrows but nonetheless amused them. Upon his return, he narrated his story about what happened. Being alone in-charge to guide his children as his wife was away on a conference, he went to the store but the children became very bothered as it took him very long time to return. The book follows the story of a father’s adventure as he makes sure that he’ll go home with a milk for his tea and children’s cereal for breakfast. And man, Fortunately, the Milk is an awesome short book.

One of the best things about this book is that it is very short, aside from the fact that it is so gloriously illustrated.

I adored The Graveyard Book same as with Coraline and The Sleeper and the Spindle so I decided that another Neil Gaiman will definitely be a good decision especially for someone who’s still fighting that dreadful reading slump. I have had good experience with Neil Gaiman so far.

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