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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense. For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.From Publishers Weekly If Zwerger's Alice (reviewed above) is deliciously cryptic, Oxenbury's (Tom and Pippo books) brims with the fun and frights of a visit to an amusement park. In perhaps her most ambitious work to date, Oxenbury applies her finely honed instinct for a child's perspective to create an Alice accessible to all ages. With the opening scene of a tomboyish heroine slumped against her sister who is reading under a tree, the artist seems to answer Alice's first line: "What is the use of a book... without... read more --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description This classic tale of a little girl's adventure is full of imagination. A smiling Cheshire cat, screaming Queen of Hearts, and always-late White Rabbit keep the reader engrossed from one fantastic scene to the next. Classic illustrations included. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. All Customer Reviews Average Customer Review:  Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Alice was always about Fun right from Day 1.Its led to endless parodies for one thing which all emphasize the fun factor and yet its also an academic thing. Its author was a Genius but by the time the book was published it had had a catalyst in Alice Liddell,one of the children who heard the story and begged Carroll to write it down for her. At this time there was no thought of offering the manuscript too a publisher,that again had another catalyst in author George McDonald whose daughter read the rough draft and liked it herself. Over 100 years on the World is full of Alice Experts and there are Societies in the UK,North America,Japan and New Zealand to spread the Word According To Lewis Carroll Nowadays you can find a months worth of reading on the Internet which means you can become an Alice Expert of sorts.The most obvious route to this is to become a Collector but here you have to specialize when an average of one new book a week appears.Or if not books there's over 100 CDs somewhere of Alice associated and inspired music. You don't though even need to read the book in the physical sense when its on line or available as a Talking Book (with at least 50 different readers) so you can easily get someone else to read it out to you What's become the Alice Industry is fuelled by endless merchandizing on line or via mail order and retail shops which specialise in Alice. Here in England you become aware of more American than British involvement,every week bringing something new --This text refers to the Paperback edition Was this review helpful to you?   (Report this)
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