Fortunately, the Milk...You know what it's like when your mum goes away on a business trip and Dad's in charge. She leaves a really, really long list of what he's got to do. And the most important thing is DON'T FORGET TO GET THE MILK. Unfortunately, Dad forgets. So the next morning, before breakfast, he has to go to the corner shop, and this is the story of why it takes him a very, very long time to get back.Featuring: Professor Steg (a time-travelling dinosaur), some green globby things, the Queen of the Pirates, the famed jewel that is the Eye of Splod, some wumpires, and a perfectly normal but very important carton of milk.The award-laden, bestselling Neil Gaiman, author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Stardust, Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book and Coraline, brings his biggest ever publishing year to a spectacular conclusion with this gloriously entertaining novel about time-travel, dinosaurs, milk and dads. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 13 |
Section 4 | 16 |
Section 5 | 18 |
Section 6 | 22 |
Section 7 | 27 |
Section 8 | 31 |
Section 15 | 80 |
Section 16 | 84 |
Section 17 | 91 |
Section 18 | 94 |
Section 19 | 95 |
Section 20 | 96 |
Section 21 | 98 |
Section 22 | 103 |
Section 9 | 35 |
Section 10 | 46 |
Section 11 | 47 |
Section 12 | 48 |
Section 13 | 71 |
Section 14 | 73 |
Section 23 | 104 |
Section 24 | 124 |
Section 25 | 145 |
Section 26 | 150 |
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asked my sister asked Professor Steg Aunt Button balloon basket breakfast cereal CHRIS RIDDELL Coconuts Coraline Dave McKean decorative plate dinosaur song Diplodocus disc drippy alien emerald explain later EYE of SPLOD Floaty-Ball-Person Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier flowerpots Fortunately fridge Galactic Police gorilla green globby aliens green globby person grundledorfer happen hole in space hot-air balloon human father jungle lady wumpire little thin Machine mammals Marshall Road mighty milk monster NEIL GAIMAN nice night noise orange juice pickles piranhas Pirate Queen plastic flamingos ponies pressed the button pressed the red Priest of Splod Professor Steg leaned Professor Steg nipped Professor Steg pressed prophecy Pteranodon Really-Good-Moves-Around-in-Time red button redecorating Road and Fletcher rope ladder sacrifice shouted side snot snot-bubble space dinosaurs space-bikes special-shiny-greeny-stone Splod’s head Steg’s Stegosaurus There’s things tight hold Toastios told top of Splod’s Tyrannosaurus voice volcano stopped erupting vorms walking the plank