Lewis Carroll, Author Random House Disney $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-56282-245-3
This slick version of the classic nonsense poem from Through the Looking Glass seems more a Disney souvenir than a book to snuggle up with. Angular textural sketches, apparently rough drafts for an animated feature (many possess a Fantasia -like...
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Lewis Carroll, Author Berkley Publishing Group $3.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-12022-4
Classics Illustrated comics returns with this dismal adaptation of Carroll's second Alice tale. Most of the charming paradoxes and silly puns are salvaged in gs the text, arranged in columns beneath the artwork rather than in word balloons....
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Thomas Christensen, Editor, Renee Flower, Illustrator Mercury House $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-56279-009-7
In 1895, 30 years after publication of his masterpiece, Carroll explained that he didn't want to retrace the path to Alice , because it had become a ``beaten highroad.'' Instead, he produced a two-volume tale of the eponymous fairy siblings,...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Full Cast Dramatization, Performed by , read by a full cast. BBC Audio $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60283-660-0
The classic and an equally transporting imagining of the life of Alice Liddell Hargreaves.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
, read by a full cast. BBC Audio
, two CDs, 2 hrs., $14.95 ISBN 978-1-60283-660-0
With strong...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, J. Otto Seibold, Author, J. Otto Seibold, Illustrator . Scholastic/Orchard $19.95 (6p) ISBN 978-0-439-41184-4
Seibold's (Gluey: A Snail Tale) paper-engineered Alice does not match the gracefulness of Robert Sabuda's (reviewed above). It begins briskly, with Alice spying the White Rabbit, but soon reveals its shortcomings as a pop-up. The rabbit, for
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Lewis Carroll, illus. by Maria Taylor. Tango (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $24.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-85707-814-5
In time for the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, four key moments from the story—including Alice’s fall down the rabbit hole and her croquet match with the Queen of Hearts—play out in gracefully crafted scenes that expand in an
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Lewis Carroll, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds. Dreamscape, , unabridged, 3 CDs, 3.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-68262-080-9
Reynolds has a friendly, frolicksome tone that helps children engage with Carroll’s verbal antics, delightful silliness, and the very amusing concept of moving through and maneuvering in the reverse world of a mirror. Reynolds actually manages to...
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Lewis Carroll, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 3 CDs, 3 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-68262-038-0
Reader Reynolds buoyantly leads listeners down the rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy world of Carroll’s Wonderland. When the young Alice follows a waistcoat-wearing rabbit holding a pocket watch, she finds herself in a fantastical world of...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Helen Oxenbury, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $24.99 (207p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0804-0
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
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Helen Oxenbury, Illustrator , illus. by Helen Oxenbury. Candlewick $12.99 (207p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2049-3
"An Alice accessible to all ages," wrote PW
in a starred review. "The villains here are more stoogelike than menacing, and the volume brims with the fun and frights of a visit to an amusement park. An ideal introduction to a lifelong...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Jane Breskin Zalben, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0071-9
Lewis Carroll's beloved nonsense poem about the walrus and the carpenter who amiably lure a bed of naive oysters to their dinner tablethen dine on themreaches new heights in nonsense with Zalben's full-color paintings. Eager for the treat promised...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Jane Breskin Zalben, Illustrator, Michael Patrick Hearn, Foreword by Boyds Mills Press $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56397-719-0
PW called this book ""a fine presentation of [Carroll's] delightful classic."" Age 4-8. (Aug.)
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Edward Mendelson, Editor, Eric Copeland, Illustrator Sterling Publishing (NY) $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8069-5541-4
The Poetry for Young People series adds Lewis Carroll, edited by Edward Mendelson, illus. by Eric Copeland. All the favorites can be found, from ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"" to the classic ""Jabberwocky,"" and annotations supply definitions for...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Harriet Castor, Retold by, Zdenko Basic, Illustrator , illus. by Zdenko Basic. Barron's $18.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7641-6333-3
In this enthusiastic adaptation, readers follow a stylized puppetlike Alice on her adventures, which are illustrated with elaborate mixed-media collages featuring a madcap assortment of books, clocks, and photographs, as well as doors and windows...
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Lewis Carroll, illus. by Michael Foreman, Pavilion (IPG/Trafalgar Square, dist.), $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-84365-142-0
Drawing inspiration from Carroll’s own photography, Foreman brings fresh enthusiasm to an already wondrous tale. Unlike many depictions, his Alice is “dark-haired and elfin-featured” (per the illustrator’s note) as the living Alice Liddell appeared...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Arthur Rackham, Illustrator Chronicle Books $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-58717-152-9
An edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll contains all of Arthur Rackham's original artwork from the 1907 edition (published after Sir John Tenniel's illustrations). Pen-and-inks dot the text; full-page paintings, such as...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Graeme Base, Illustrator ABRAMS $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1150-5
Base's considerable interpretive talents, on full display in Animalia , are featured in this wildly inventive version of ``Jabberwocky'' from Through the Looking Glass. The lilting phonetic texture of the poem is perfectly enhanced by Base's...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Christopher A. Myers, Illustrator , illus. by Christopher Myers. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0372-1
In his kinetic interpretation of Carroll's famous verse, Myers (Jazz
) gives the poem a contemporary urban setting and a basketball theme. As the book begins, a girl looks over her shoulder while jumping rope with two others. A flip of the page
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Stephane Jorisch, Illustrator , illus. by Stéphane Jorisch. Kids Can $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-55337-079-6
Jorisch (Suki's Kimono
) recasts Carroll's nonsense comedy as a dystopia, setting it in a claustrophobic city among grim-faced people. The introduction lends an ominous note to Carroll's "All mimsy were the borogroves,/ And the mome...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Iassen Ghiuselev, Illustrator Simply Read $29.95 (116p) ISBN 978-1-894965-00-2
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland gets another makeover in a new edition illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev. Beginning with a gouache painting that combines elements from the entire story into one fantastical scene, Ghiuselev's illustrations continue
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Robert Ingpen, Illustrator , illus. by Robert Ingpen Sterling $19.95 (191p) ISBN 978-1-4027-6835-4
A pensive, titian-haired Alice trips down the rabbit hole in this adaptation that pairs the classic story with gracefully expressive illustrations. Ingpen’s detailed visions of the menagerie of creatures Alice meets lend them anthropomorphic...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Martin Gardner, Editor, Henry Holliday, Illustrator , edited by Martin Gardner. Norton $27.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-393-06242-7
Having prepared the definitive edition of The Annotated Alice
(1999), prolific polymath Gardner has now produced the perfect companion volume, the definitive edition of Carroll's long nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Joel Stewart, Illustrator , illus. by Joel Stewart. Candlewick $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2018-9
Stewart's (The Adventures of a Nose) mixed media art is as winsome, witty and wacky as Carroll's tongue-tripping poem, which first appeared in the pages of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
in 1872. The opening spread...
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Lewis Carroll, retold by Joe Rhatigan and Charles Nurnberg, illus. by Eric Puybaret. Charlesbridge/Imagine!, $17.95 (28p) ISBN 978-1-62354-049-4
Puybaret brings a playful sophistication to his dreamlike images, which are well matched to the unpredictable atmosphere of Carroll’s classic fantasy. However, this adaptation only sets out to tell the first part of Alice’s story, focusing on her...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Ralph Steadman, Illustrator Firefly Books $29.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-55297-754-5
'Tis the season for journeying down rabbit holes. In addition to Sabuda's and Seibold's pop-up editions (see Children's Forecasts, Sept. 22). Ralph Steadman portrays the curious girl in spirited illustrations that bring new life to Lewis Carroll's
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Rodney Matthews, Illustrator , illus. by Rodney Matthews. Candlewick/Templar $24.99 (95p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4568-7
These lushly illustrated hardcover gift books are meant to be cherished for years to come.
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
, illus. by Rodney Matthews. Candlewick/Templar
, $24.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4568-7
An interplanetary landscape serves as
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Lewis Carroll, Author, C. S. Lewis, Author, Cooper Edens, Editor Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05385-2
What the publisher calls the ``ultimate'' edition is in reality simply another look at Carroll's story in a beautifully produced volume--with an unusual twist. Edens has compiled various illustrations to the text that were made between 1865 and 1933.
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator NorthSouth $19.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-7358-1166-9
Zwerger's (The Wizard of Oz) captivating cover image of the Mad Tea-Party for this edition of Carroll's 1865 tale conveys the psychological tension of the interior artwork: Alice, at the head of an elongated table with a pristine white linen cloth,...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Angel Dominguez, Illustrator Artisan $25 (152p) ISBN 978-1-885183-47-7
wonderland revisited Spanish illustrator Angel Dominguez fills an unabridged edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with 75 watercolors, most of them closely packed with lush oversized flowers, strange creatures and winding...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Anthony Browne, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $19.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-394-80592-4
A clock-face grows like the daisies around it as the White Rabbit hurries by; in the opening pages of the story, Browne hints at his interpretive presence in Carroll's world. A burning key, a fish swimming through space, a green thread winding its...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Deloss McGraw, Illustrator HarperCollins $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-029150-1
DeLoss McGraw's illustrations bring the magic of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to a younger audience, with abstract splashes of color that render the Caterpillar a bit less eerie and the Queen less terrifying than Sir John...
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Lewis Carroll, Author, Peter Weevers, Illustrator Philomel Books $17.95 (126p) ISBN 978-0-399-22241-2
Publishing a newly illustrated edition of a children's classic is a risky undertaking: Is there really a need, for example, for another excursion down the rabbit hole with Alice? However, when the work is graced with Weevers's elegant watercolors,...
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Robert Clarke Sabuda, Author, Lewis Carroll, Author, Robert Clarke Sabuda, Illustrator . Little Simon/S&S $24.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-689-84743-1
Readers will be astonished by every tableau in this pop-up extravaganza. The initial spread explodes into a surprisingly tall green forest, topped by billowing leafy shapes that resemble the Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter and Queen of Hearts. On the lawn...
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Graeme Base, Author, Lewis Carroll, Author ABRAMS $19.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3520-4
Graeme Base's 1989 version of Lewis Carroll's famous poem achieves new depths in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky: A Book of Brillig Dioramas. Each spread now pops out in a multi-layer, 3-D, stage-like setting. (Abrams, $19.95 14p all ages ISBN 0-8109-352
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Nicola Baxter, Editor, Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Lewis Carroll, Author Smithmark Publishers $9.98 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7651-9745-0
the poetry shelf Two new poetry anthologies present poetry as a key to unlocking the imagination. Charles Sullivan collects over 80 poems for Imaginary Animals: Poetry and Art for Young People. A companion to Imaginary Architecture, the entertaining
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Lewis Carroll, illus. by John Tenniel. Pan Macmillan (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $8.99 (22p) ISBN 978-1-5098-2055-9
Children who are still years away from reading about Alice’s trip down the rabbit hole can get a taste of Wonderland in a counting book based on some of Tenniel’s classic illustrations. Starting with “One White Rabbit for Alice to follow,” the...
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Lewis Carroll and Gyles Brandreth. Notting Hill, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-912-55959-6
The second edition of this lovely bedside companion, written by Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) and originally compiled (with some tweaks) by British entertainer and politician Brandreth (Elizabeth) in the 1970s, features a litany of cures and...
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