![]() ![]() ![]() When Great Aunt Reba dies, she leaves some money to the family. The Heffley family’s house undergoes a disastrous attempt at home improvement. If you read only one book this year, a story with dancing dwarfs is always a wise choice. “That is where we will have gone.”įrenetic as the story is, it’s hard not to love a novel that borrows equally from Calvin and Hobbes and The Usual Suspects. The father asks a time-traveling stegosaurus where all the dinosaurs went. The best scene in the book is brief and quiet. But once in a while, readers may wish that the author would stop throwing things. He makes pirates look both dangerous and adorable. Sometimes the book feels like a personal bet between the writer and the illustrator: “But can you draw this?” Young is always up to the challenge, no matter what gets thrown at him. The only trouble is, he’s kidnapped by aliens, and by the end of the book, he’s being threatened by dancing dwarfs. The story is simple: A father goes to the store to buy milk. ![]() The book seems to include every plot on. Publishers used to say, “If you read only one book this year, make it this one.” Gaiman has tried to write the only book anyone will need, ever, packing into it every adventure story written in the past 300 years. ![]()
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