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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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Robert Sabuda dazzles us withbreathtaking super-size pop-upsin his reworking of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Robert Sabudahas a reputation as one of the most innovative paper-engineers working in children's books. In 1990 Monica Edingerlearnedduring a seminar of the many artists who illustrated the book that she designed a new language arts unit for her fourth graders"The Many Faces of Alice." Schwab, Gabriele (1996). The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-585-00124-3. OCLC 42854066. Anthony Browne explains in Anthony Browne: How I Re-Imagined Alice in Wonderland how he did not want to be influenced by Sir John Tenniel's imagery. For example, for the Mad Hatter Anthony Browne tried to get around the Tennielversion by getting rid of his top-hat and replacing it with lots of different hats and Anthony Browne further suggests the Mad Hatter's madness by splitting his face into one half happy and one side sad.

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (colour F/P, 11 line 1899, reworked edition 12 colour plates, 37 line, 1909) Susina, Jan (8 September 2009). The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature. Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203869314. ISBN 978-1-135-25440-7. This type of printing required glazed paper that had to be pasted in (“tipped-in”) after the text was printed. Although this made publications more expensive, “the result enhanced the appearance of books and helped create the early-twentieth-century market for gift-books”.Little Brother and Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm (13 colour plates, 45 line, 1917) Joseph Brabant's passion went beyond possession. He collaboratedwith Canadian printmaker and teacher George A Walker and printer Bill Poole to produce his own Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Brabant created his own hand-printed edition of a mere 177 copies. Brabant and Walker chose unusual scenes, which makes the book all the more distinctive. a b c d e f McCrum, Robert (20 January 2014). "The 100 best novels: No 18 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017 . Retrieved 25 January 2022. Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by the Brothers Grimm (95 line, 1900, reworked edition 40 colour plates, 62 line, 1909) Royal Mail launches Alice in Wonderland stamps to celebrate Lewis Carroll classic". Warrington Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022 . Retrieved 18 September 2022.

Straley, Jessica (2016). "Generic variability: Lewis Carroll, scientific nonsense, and literary parody". Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp.86–117. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781316422700.004. ISBN 978-1-316-42270-0. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (40 colour plates, 34 line, William Heinemann, London, 1908) Nilsen, Don L. F. (1988). "The Linguistic Humor of Lewis Carroll". Thalia. 10 (1): 35–42. ISSN 0706-5604. ProQuest 1312106512.

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The 1992 musical theatre production Alice used both books as its inspiration. It also employs scenes with Carroll, a young Alice Liddell, and an adult Alice Liddell, to frame the story. Paul Schmidt wrote the play, with Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan writing the music. [120] [121] Although the original production in Hamburg, Germany, received only a small audience, Tom Waits released the songs as the album Alice in 2002.

Alice is full of linguistic play, puns, and parodies. [45] According to Gillian Beer, Carroll's play with language evokes the feeling of words for new readers: they "still have insecure edges and a nimbus of nonsense blurs the sharp focus of terms". [46] The literary scholar Jessica Straley, in a work about the role of evolutionary theory in Victorian children's literature, argues that Carroll's focus on language prioritises humanism over scientism by emphasising language's role in human self-conception. [47] Books for children in the Alice mould emerged as early as 1869 and continued to appear throughout the late 19th century. [107] Released in 1903, the British silent film Alice in Wonderland was the first screen adaptation of the book. [108] He studied art and was influenced by primitive cave paintings, Gothic and Renaissance art, and avant-garde French illustrators of children's books of the 1920's.

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Lewis Carroll's classic story is wonderfully re-imagined by award-winning and internationally bestselling illustrator Anthony Browne, in a special anniversary edition. Anthony Browne's dazzling illustrations are perfectly paired with the surreal quality of Carroll's writing, making this book a treasure. The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 65 silhouettes, William Heinemann, London, 1920) Inside cover, I recognize Bill the lizard, the White Rabbit, and the mad tea party trio (im guessing here).

Lecercle, Jean-Jacques (1994). Philosophy of nonsense: the intuitions of Victorian nonsense literature. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-07652-4.Carpenter, Humphrey (1985). Secret Gardens: The Golden Age of Children's Literature. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-35293-9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at Oxford University. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book. Sheehy, Helen (1996). Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-41117-8. OCLC 34410008. Horovitz Alice in Wonderland (excs)". Gramophone.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 July 2020 . Retrieved 18 May 2020.

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