Fortunately, the Milk . . .: Neil Gaiman

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I think part of it probably comes from when you are writing a first-person narrative, you don't necessarily think of people by names. Both the father and the son get to tell the story, at the same time sometimes, and neither of them have names, other than their roles in the story. Neil Gaiman’s latest book, “Fortunately The Milk” is a boisterous tale of an extraordinary adventure, time travel and milk.

Fortunately, the Milk provides an ideal bridge between the author's picture books (such as The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and The Wolves in the Walls, both illustrated by longtime collaborator Dave McKean) and his more haunting fiction (such as Coraline and the Newbery Medal–winning The Graveyard Book). It seems forced and quickly told, like Neil was at a party telling this story and someone wrote it down and published it without any real editorial input.As he explains to his hungry children, this was not his fault but the result of a series of fantastical, otherworldly adventures that he had to overcome before he could get home. Steg begs the father to be careful because she has calculated that “if the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen.

The next time leap takes the father and Professor Steg to a time and place where scary, hungry wumpires live. And they need their breakfast") prompts the pirates to make him walk the plank, with piranhas circling below. Well it would expedite this review if you had a copy of Neil Gaiman's new book 'Fortunately, the Milk' that I could read very quickly. Young indicates the boy's intrusion with an inset box showing the reaction of the two children as piranhas leap from the waves, teeth bared. The challenge in Fortunately, the Milk, was doing a narrative which had two different "me's" narrating.To pass the time they consider eating pickles, play games, and the little sister practices her violin.