The City Curious

About this book

Smaly and Redy have three bedrooms but no children to fill them. Their search leads into a country where buildings are made of sweets, and the tempting doors may be far less welcoming than they appear.

Jean de Bosschère's peculiar fantasy turns edible streets and curious inhabitants into a world at once enchanting and alarming. Eight colour plates and numerous line drawings supply its distinctive personality; a chocolate doorway can be as sinister as a haunted gate. F. Tennyson Jesse's English version keeps the story's strange humour and the unease that runs beneath its edible scenery.