In this book, written and illustrated by Tim Burton, the director of Ed Wood, Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice proves loyal to his very particular invented universe, in which cruelty and tenderness as well as the macabre and poetic are combined. Tim Burton offers us a startling spectacle of lonely, strange and different children, who are excluded by everyone and yet close to us. They horrify, charm and excite us as well as making us laugh out loud