Let’s start with the delightfully ingenious cover: that’s not just a jacket flap to protect the book … it folds out to a spectacular poster (pages 74 and 75, gorgeously magnified) on one side, while the other side captures “Story 3” around the four edges of the oversized square with the book’s actual front and back cover in the middle. Being a product of Eggers/McSweeney’s/McMullens’ collective imaginations – and, of course, the source material being Ionescoean (is that a word?) – this is no ordinary kiddie book! Eggers founded McSweeney’s which recently debuted McMullens, their new imprint just for children’s titles, which published Stories 1 Theatre of the Absurd himself – wrote kiddie stories in addition to his dozens of plays ( Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Bald Soprano, being some of his signature pieces). How strange to admit that Dave Eggers taught me Eugène Ionesco – Mr.
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