While we're on a Neil Gaiman kick, I kept my bedtime reading pace with Odd and the Frost Giants, a really short Neil Gaiman story.
To be honest, Gaiman is really best in short story format, and this story illustrates why: there's a build up, an introduction to the characters, and then a confrontation, where the hero protagonist defuses the crisis by using his super power of listening to other other side and figuring out what they really want. In this particular case, the solution was simply to give the other side a plausible face-saving-way to back out of doing what they came to regret.
The book's short, easy to read, and fun to read aloud to Boen at bedtime. He was kinda disconcerted that it was so short, but to me, that's a feature not a bug. Recommended.
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