LOCOMOTIVE RHYMES BY JULIAN TUWIM COVERDRAWING BY LEWITT and HIM LOCOMOTIVE is rather a big word for little people, the grown-ups may say, but this cheerful book from Poland is no ordinary 'youngster.' It is simply a book which the children will love-and one which they, better than any grown-up, will understand. For it contains three funny and musical poems from the Polish of Julian Tuwim. The stories are called Locomotive, The Turnip and The Birds' Broadcast – and that is exactly what the...

"Once, the Kranzedan wanted to take the underground. There, at the end of the escalator, which took him deep, deep down into the earth, and easily missed between faded billboards, was a small iron door. Behind it the Kranzedan heard a tiny voice calling to him: »Come in, come in, come in …« He opened the door, and squeezed through, and he has not been seen since …" 33 bizarre stories in which the author makes his main character disappear again and again as if by a magic trick, only for him...