6/19/2023 0 Comments Story Number 4 by Eugène Ionesco![]() The basic premise of each book is that young Jaqueline is left in the care of an adult who tries to entertain her questions with extended on-the-spot stories. My father was a fairly progressive parent at the time and also made a point of getting a number of books by Ezra Jack Keats and other other Caldecott and Newberry winners. Like many kids, I had any number of children's book as a child. (I suspect it has something to do with not "needing" to form complex plots or extensive characterization.) But back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playwright Eugene Ionesco penned a series of children's books titled simply Story Number 1, Story Number 2, Story Number 3, and Story Number 4. Children's books, naturally, are a not-too-distant cousin of comics and it's not uncommon these days for celebrities to write a children's book for whatever reasons. ![]() ![]() For whatever bizarre reason(s), I find myself reflecting on Eugene Ionesco's children's books today. ![]()
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