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TL;DR: Dad goes out to buy milk; gets abducted by green globby aliens; warps space and time; and bumps into pirates, jungle tribes, vampires and space dinosaurs This was fun! Having never read a Children's book by Neil Gaiman, this was wildly creative. The illustrations are great and the story is, I imagine, great for bedside reading with kids (and okay, adults too). This is one gateway book to enjoy Adventure and Fantasy

TL;DR: Seriously though, it is 180 pages with the font, the size of a thumb. It's a short read. Take the time. Anyway, if you've seen the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, it is extremely close to the original by Roald Dahl. Around 97% close. I'm saying 97% because the part about Willy Wonka's back story in the Movie was not in the book. Roald Dahl may not have thought of giving Willy Wonka a back story, and it was pretty sad now remembering it. Daddy and Family issues may not have jived with the lively and warm tone Roald Dahl had in the book.  I wonder what Roald Dahl had in mind when he was writing the book. It reads like a sweet cautionary tale for kids about being too gluttonous, eating too much gum, being too spoiled and watching too much TV. Essentially, how to not be bratty hidden inside a Fantasy Chocolate world, like a caramel inside a chocolate kiss. Hey,  Charlotte's Web by EB White   is an...

This seems heavy for a children's book, but it's a good story. It tells of  friendship, sacrifice and service. M aybe we should all strive to be like Charlotte. W hen the opportunity presents itself to take care of the Charlotte's in our lives, we should really take care them. The symbol that the web represent just might be that it is the product of the efforts of a person to make someone else's life better.