The Milk of Dreams

September is associated with the end of summer, with a return to school and various deadlines and responsibilities. Perhaps you’d rather forget all those dreary things, or at least escape them for a time. Leonora Carrington’s The Milk of Dreams will transport readers to a land where children grow wings for ears and their heads fly away from their bodies, laughing. Carrington was a surrealist painter and the author of novels, short stories, and plays. The Milk of Dreams is a book of poems and drawings for children. Carrington’s enchanting, sometimes sinister dreamscapes offer an opportunity to look deeply at the world around us with wonder and with laughter.