The “silly” stories, as Ionesco called them, are accompanied by nearly 100 full-color illustrations, painstakingly restored by the artist for this brand new edition.

    When her parents die suddenly leaving only a little money and one-way passages to Canada, a young Scottish girl decides she and her four-year-old brother will pursue family plans to relocate without telling the authorities.

    Set in California during the 1960s, the book centres on the lives of a group of young friends.

    When Astrovo, a once-splendid country estate in Russia, is turned into a finishing school, the spirits of former inhabitants seek to reenact their lives.