Neil Gaiman’s books are practically guaranteed to be
slightly warped, slightly bizarre, slightly absurd. That’s why we love them
isn’t it?
This picture book is fairly straight forward in premise, in
some ways of looking at it, and is pretty much explained by the title: a boy
swaps his dad for two goldfish. Cause that could happen, right?
Then, as predicted by his sister, he gets in trouble when
his mother comes home (there’s a very funny sequence with the sister trying to
tell the mum who doesn’t like her to talk with her mouth full) and they have to
go and swap him back. Only, they discover that he has already been traded on.
And so begins a journey here there and everywhere trying to un-swap all the
items that have been traded for his dad.
So a little bit quirky, but that’s what makes it fun. Dave
McKean’s illustrations take the quirk factor to another level, playing in to
and off of each other sense of humour in a perfect way.
I've got a great edition of this that has the book read by
Neil Gaimen himself, which is an added bonus.
Find it on Goodreads
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