Alice Through the Looking-Glass - Hardcover

Carroll, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783701846 ISBN 13: 9781783701841

Publisher: Palazzo Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Why, sometimes I ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.   When Alice steps through the looking-glass in the drawing room one snowy, drowsy afternoon, she finds herself in a peculiar, topsy-turvy world where chess pieces walk about, flowers talk and nothing is quite as it seems. Alice is caught up in a bizarre chess game and encounters some rather eccentric characters, both new and familiar including the argumentative Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, the nonsensical White Queen and the quick-tempered Red Queen. The story features the poems, The Walrus and the Carpenter and Jabberwocky , which have become just as well known as Alice s adventures themselves.   To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll s first Alice book, the award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen has illustrated its enchanting sequel in this sumptuous volume. Full of anarchic humour, witty rhymes and sparkling word play, it will delight new readers and devoted fans.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Ingpen was born in 1936 in Geelong, Australia and still lives and works nearby in Barwon Heads. He studied illustration art and book design at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 1986, he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his contribution to children s literature and he has been honoured with Membership of the Order of Australia. Alice Through the Looking-Glass is the thirteenth title in his highly acclaimed series of children s classics, which have now been published in many editions around the world. The other titles are: Peter Pan and Wendy Treasure Island The Jungle Book The Wind in the Willows A Christmas Carol Alice s Adventures in Wonderland The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Secret Garden The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Around the World in Eighty Days Just So Stories The Adventures of Pinocchio

Review:

"Lewis Carroll, we could say, created the whole of children's literature with these wonderful stories. Placing a child at the centre of a narrative that was entirely free of instruction, entirely devoted to delight, was a stroke of genius. The Alices are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense."—Philip Pullman, author, His Dark Materials trilogy, on Alice Through the Looking-Glass

About this edition

• Publisher: Palazzo Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783701846
• ISBN 13: 9781783701841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Ingpen Robert