Fun!
Basic premise: A father goes to get milk for his children's breakfast, comes back late, and spins a fantastical, ridiculous tale to explain why.
And quite often, he is saved from disaster and certain death because, "fortunately, the milk" was in the way, or was conveniently there in his hand to use in some odd way.
Major silliness abounds, with pirates and a balloon and a dinosaur and other oddities. And all the while, the father says no thank you to adventure, because his children are waiting for milk so they can eat their cereal. The "voice" in which the story is told is so matter-of-fact even when time travel and a talking dinosaur are involved. Great fun.
I know I'm not quoting accurately, but C.S. Lewis once said something about good books being the ones you can enjoy equally as a child and later when you're an adult. This certainly belongs on that list. Get it, Gaiman fans.
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