The Milk Of Dreams

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Leonora Carrington was a Surrealist painter, known for her dreamy visions of humans and animals. In English for the first time, The Milk of Dreams shows her fantastical writing and illustrations for children, sure to spark young imaginations.

In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book thatcombines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fantastical writing and illustrations for children

The maverick surrealist Leonora Carrington was an extraordinary painter and storyteller who loved to make up stories and draw pictures for her children. She lived much of her life in Mexico, and her sons remember sitting in a big room whose walls were covered with images of wondrous creatures, towering mountains, and ferocious vegetation while she told fabulous and funny tales. That room was later whitewashed, but some of its wonders were preserved in the little notebook that Carrington called The Milk of Dreams.

John, who has wings for ears, Humbert the Beautiful, an insufferable kid who befriends a crocodile and grows more insufferable yet, and the awesome Janzamajoria are all to be encountered in The Milk of Dreams, a book that is as unlikely, outrageous, and dreamy as dreams themselves.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781681370941
Published: May 2017

Number of pages: 48
Width: 146 mm
Height: 222 mm
Depth: 10 mm

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc