The Milk of Dreams
  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781681370941
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $35.00

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 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.
  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781681370941
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for The Milk of Dreams

"It is a book that opens the imagination...[In The Milk of Dreams] there are two narratives: one is written and the other is illustrated, the two converse, one with the other, and have a strange dialogue to be discovered. This kind of story is entertaining in a way that is increasingly hard to find." --Gabriel Weisz, son of Leonora Carrington

"She was a seeker and a searcher...In her work, she always sought to define moments when one plane of consciousness blends with another." --Whitney Chadwick, author of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

"[Her work] liberates us from the miserable reality of our days"--Luis Buñuel

"Her writing...[has] a kind of crystalline detachment and light irony that connects her...to a literary tradition that includes Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear." --Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian

"Carrington is best known for her surrealist paintings and sculptures, but her idiosyncratic literary legacy is equally deserving of attention...their vivid imagery, irreverence, and surreal transformations are as provocative as they were at the time of their writing." --Tobias Carroll, The Paris Review

"Carrington explores her most pivotal autobiographical moments through symbolism and Jungian analysis, creating bizarre and unusual narrative that can be read without her biographical transparency laid upon the story or tableau...achieves [the effect of] a verbal painting."-- S.J. Chambers, Weird Fiction Review

"Carrington was an important link between surrealism and some types of modern fantasy...Carrington is an under-appreciated writer."--Jeff VanderMeer

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