Mervyn Peake's the Sunday Books

"Mervyn Peake may be best celebrated for his epic Gormenghast series and his illustrations of Treasure Island and Alice in Wonderland, but his work with Michael Moorcock in "The Sunday Books" offers stories of pirates, shipwrecks and more and comes with fine drawings. Sixty years after their creation Michael Moorcock invented stories and songs to go with Peake's drawings and thus "The Sunday Books" evolved to mark the centenary of Peake's birth. Families and all ages will find the color drawings and fun action compelling: fantasy at its best!" "Midwest Book Review" " "It is a match made in fantasy heaven: legendary genre author Michael Moorcock has written a series of verses to go with illustrations drawn by the late Gormenghast creator Mervyn Peake to entertain his children." --"The Guardian" (UK) The Sunday Books", which recalls both Babar and "Where the Wild Things Are"." --"The New Yorker"'s Book Bench Blog

"An intimate window into the home life of a celebrated fantasist." -- "Publishers Weekly" Praise for Mervyn Peake: ?A gorgeous, volcanic eruption . . . a work of extraordinary imagination.? --"The New Yorker" ?Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It is a very, very great work . . . a classic of our age.? --Robertson Davies, author of The Deptford Trilogy ?[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.? --C.S. Lewis ?The true fantasy classic of our time.? --"The Washington Post" ?Peake's style is marvelous... His inventiveness, his ingenuity, and his humor are astonishing.? --"San Francisco Chronicle" ?Many readers admire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, but fans of Mervyn Peake's Titus trilogy maintain that this extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques