Source of the legend and the letter of reference and conjecture, Alice in Wonderland is for the pure pleasure in most of the children followed. 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 of the child moving through a land / wonders wild and new. "You have to find the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and the Mad Hatter, among a host of other characters - extinct creatures, fantastic and mundane. Alice travels through this Wonderland, trying to understand the meaning of his strange experiences. But to become "curious", apparently without moral or sense.
For over 130 years, children have reveled in the wonderful non-corporate, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, every turn Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, notes that he took the "normal" at school: reeling, writhing, and branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, disfigurement and contempt. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good, the master drawings are inextricably linked to the beloved story. (All ages) - Emilie Coulter - This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Dial the Daisies grow around the White Rabbit hurries by; in the first pages of the story, Browne hints at his interpretive presence in Carroll's world. Burning Key, the fish that swim in space, meanders through the green wire cabinetful strange objects, and the artist makes it clear that this is no ordinary Alice. Thimbles and umbrellas bloom atop a green stem, Willy chimp races by another thimble casts a shadow Trophy Caterpillar wears the mantle covered with butterflies. Mad Hatter has a stack of his wares on his head, and wears a terrible grimace, tea party, where he lives is a table full of toylike objects and sweets, including many juxapositions surprising.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. - This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
In short, the amount so consumed by the unexpected that readers may well find their eyes leaving the text looks at the pictures, full of detail and great pictures jaunty surrealist pompously point back to writing. All ages.
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