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A review by my 9 y-o son, described by the utterly lovely Neil Gaiman as the 'best review ever':


Today I was sick. 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. ‘BUT,�� she said, ‘Don’t think you’re going to be lazing around watching TV and playing on the computer all day.��

That was bad news. That is, indeed, what I was planning on doing. :(

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. 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 did. Look��

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There was something very good about this 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. Mum said I could stay on the iPad if I wanted to draw a picture of the writer reading the book. But I can’t draw good faces so I drew a picture of the Kindle talking. Then I labeled it ‘Kindle�� because Mum asked what it was.

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I started to read. This is me reading. And no. My face is NOT the book.

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Everyone should read this book. It will make everybody laugh. It is good and very clever. 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.

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It has good characters. The dad is a funny dad. I also like the brother and sister because they are not stupid. They ask the dad clever questions to try and trap him, but he is good at wiggling out of trouble.

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. :) )

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One day I would like to write books as good as ‘Fortunately, The Milk…�� and draw pictures as good as this too.