This gem was my first experience with Neil Gaiman's writing, but won't be my last. I was delighted by the quirky imaginative twists the author makes in this fantasy, folk-lore fiction novel. His bright mind took a story of a man in a small villiage seeking love, to the heights of a sparkling quest story. I kept wishing I could think up story turns in my stories for my grandchildren about the soft redwood forests the way Mr. Gaiman thought up the switchbacks and canyon leaps he took while inventing this story. I will share with you that the story is not for everyone - my husband, who loved the Dune series and thinks Margaret Atwood's science fiction is best read multiple times, couldn't even make it though the story because he thought it plodded. I can hardly believe it was the same book we read, because I thought Stardust sparkled!

Really full of fun details that make one want to repeat the listening experience over and over again.

This is a cute enough story, but it's nothing I'd read again. The characters are likeable enough, but the love story is sort of skimmed over- and since it's a fairy tale it's mostly a love story- and why characters act a certian way is sometimes unclear. There's no mystery to what I think is intended to leave at least some surprise for the end, but it is a cute story. Gaiman has a wonderful way with words and can tell even a so so story well. It may be worth a read, but if you're the kind of person who really only wants books you'll want to read over and over, I'd pass on this one and read his American Gods instead.

This was an absolutely amazing book, a terrific read, and I love that it was narrated by Neil Gaimen himself. However, I have to agree that it is absolutely NOT a kid's book. The sex is a little too graphic for that. Not "dirty", but not for children.

This is advertised as a kids audiobook. It has sexual content that I would not want a child under 16 to hear.