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Gaiman, Neil.
FORTUNATELY THE MILK New York : Harper, 2013 IL 3-6, RL 4.2 ISBN 0062224077 (2 booktalks) |
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Booktalk
#1 When
mum goes off to a conference, dad’s routine trip to the
corner store for milk becomes an epic adventure through
time and space! (well, spaceSHIPS, anyway. Well, A
spaceship. Twice.) While
fetching milk for his children’s cereal, a father finds
himself beamed up by aliens, threatened by pirates (who
don’t even know about walking the plank!), meeting the
balloon-flying stegosaurus scientist who invented time
travel, rather elaborately avoiding a volcanic eruption
and also escaping from some very pale, rather
hungry-looking (and not at all sparkly) people with
funny accents. Oh,
and there’s ponies at one point. And
possibly piranhas. And
hard-hairy-wet-white-crunchers. Will
he ever return to his poor hungry children? Where there is milk, there is hope! Booktalk #2 Dad took
an awfully long time to run to the corner shop to buy
milk for the cereal. Despite his children’s
suspicions, dad claims that he was definitely not
chatting with a friend he met on the street. He says
he was held up by an unfortunate adventure involving a
stegosaurus, space travel, a hot air balloon, pirates
and a near-encounter with the end of the world.
Fortunately, thanks to his efforts and dedication, the
milk survived the whole ordeal. (Booktalk by Louisiana
Young Readers' Choice Committee, 2016) |
SUBJECTS: Space and time -- Fiction. Fathers -- Fiction. Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction. Humorous stories. Adventure fiction. Humorous fiction. |