The Milk of Dreams (New York Review Children's Collection)

In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines 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.

• The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
• Down Below (NYRB Classics)
• Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
• Hearing Trumpet (Penguin Classics)
• Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings
• Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)
• Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington
• Farewell to the Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism
• Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
• The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington