Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (Author)
Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed byThrough the Looking-Glassin 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poemThe Hunting of the Snarkand fairy storiesSylvie and Bruno.

Chris Riddell (Introducer)
Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 Uk Children's Laureate, is an acclaimed artist of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. Amongst other titles, Chris illustrates theOttolineyoung fiction series andthe Goth Girlseries, as well as working closely with Paul Stewart on theEdge ChroniclesandWyrmeweald. He has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the Costa Children's Book Award 2013, the UNESCO Award forSomething Elseand the rare honour of two Kate Greenaway Medals.

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When Alice sees a White Rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch hurrying down a rabbit hole, she follows him without a thought for where she is going, and how she will get home. She finds herself in a world beyond imagination, where she seems never to be the same size for more than five minutes, where riddles have no answers, where playing cards rule, and where no one seems sane or sensible.

In Alice's quest to find her way home, she meets a cast of unforgettable characters – the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the sleepy Dormouse, the fearsome Queen of Hearts and, of course, the smiling Cheshire Cat. But where is the White Rabbit? And what is he late for? And how will she ever find her way home?

For over 150 years, the story that Lewis Carroll wrote as a celebration of the magical realms of the human imagination has enchanted generations of readers with its memorable characters, passages and verses.

Glorious full-colour illustrations from the Hans Christian Andersen Award-winning artist Robert Ingpen.


'Ingpen's drawings are utterly compelling' – Michael Morpurgo

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Chapter - 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole Chapter - 2: The Pool of Tears Chapter - 3: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale Chapter - 4: The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill Chapter - 5: Advice from a Caterpillar Chapter - 6: Pig and Pepper Chapter - 7: A Mad Tea-Party Chapter - 8: The Queen's Croquet-Ground Chapter - 9: The Mock Turtle's Story Chapter - 10: The Lobster-Quadrille Chapter - 11: Who Stole the Tarts? Chapter - 12: Alice's Evidence

[Former director/designer Melly] Still and Reade boldly resist temptations to create a cute, fluffy, Disneyfied landscape, instead embracing the physical limitations of theatre as a catalyst for the audience's collective imagination . . . It's a fresh, idiosyncratic pleasure.

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures?"
For over 125 years John Tenniel's superb illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have been the perfect complement to Lewis Carroll's timeless story. In that time Alice has been illustrated by numerous artists, but not one has come close to matching the universal appeal of the original pictures.
This is the first Alice to reproduce Ternniel's exquisite drawings from prints taken directly from the original wood engravings. Here, Tenniel's fine line work is far crisper, delicate shadings are reproduced with more subtlety, and details never seen before are now visible.
Like most nineteenth-century children's books, the pictures for Alice were created by transferring the artist's drawings to woodblocks, But with Alice, the original blocks served as masters from which metal plates were made for printing. Unfortunately, these plates deteriorated from the repeated pressure applied during printing, and over time, many of the fine lines in Tenniel's pictures simply vanished altogether.As the year-, passed, the original woodblocks disappeared and were believed lost; then, in 1985 they were discovered in a London bank vault.
Now, for the first time, prints from these woodblocks have been used to produce a deluxe gift edition with clearer, more detailed images than have ever been seen before. At last, readers can see the Alice that Carroll and Tenniel had originally envisioned.