You know what its like when your mum goes away on a business trip and Dads
in charge. She leaves a really, really long list of what hes got to do. And
the most important thing is DONT 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.

Review
Childrens Book of the Year 2013 (The Sunday Times)

From multi-award-winning Neil Gaiman comes a spectacularly silly,
mind-bendingly clever, brilliantly bonkers adventure with lip-smackingly
gorgeous illustrations by Chris Riddell.