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Summary
Summary
From the stories of Lewis Carroll comes the tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole and is transported to a magical world of wonderful creatures and mystical adventures.
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Alice in Wonderland is one of the most wondrous, truly original stories ever written filled with magical and marvelous happenings. On its 150th anniversary in 2015, Lewis Carroll's tale of a world gone topsy turvy gets a unique picture book, turned video, retelling of the beginning of Alice's journey, with elegantly simplified text that keeps all of the astonishing adventures and wide-eyed amazement of the original. What a wonderful Introduction for young children to many of the classic Carroll characters - Alice and The White Rabbit, the Blue Caterpillar, Bill the Lizard and more. Award winning, bestselling artist Eric Puybaret creates an enchanting and magical Wonderland that looks like no other interpretation.
Author Notes
Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises.
He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
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 helter-skelter pursuit of the White Rabbit and her fluctuating size as she samples Wonderland's drinks, cakes, and mushrooms. The illustrator's inventive use of perspective makes the most of these transformations (readers peer down at Alice from above as she shrinks, for example), but Alice's literal highs and lows don't add up to much of a story. Puybaret includes a cameo from the Cheshire Cat and an allusion to the Mad Hatter's tea party, but these and others are left to (possible) later books. A visually enticing story, albeit one that doesn't stand on its own. All ages. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
Also adapted by Charles Nurnberg. This severely abridged picture-book version is visually striking but textually futile. Candy-colored illustrations capture the spirit of the original text with tilted, twisty perspectives. However, Carroll's classic lives in its whimsical particularity; the reduction to fleeting plot points and anachronistic exclamations ("Yikes!" "Phew!") flattens the narrative into a series of meaningless advances. (c) Copyright 2015. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
When Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole after the White Rabbit, she takes young readers on a gentle exploration of a Wonderland that remains curious but decidedly less creepy than the original. This retelling of Carroll's classic introduces readers to the earliest of Alice's adventures, focusing on her many height-altering snacks (drawing attention to concepts of large and small, short and tall); her river of tears; and the caucus race though caucus is dropped from this text. She meets several of Wonderland's residents as she searches for a way home (the Dodo, Bill the Lizard, the Blue Caterpillar); but the story leaves off before she returns, hinting at additional adventures. Puybaret's colorful acrylic paintings emit a glow of whimsy perfectly suited for Alice's journey. A Wonderland map, reminiscent of a Candy Land board, graces the end papers. Though lacking the wordplay and darkness of the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this simplified rendition will nevertheless fill young readers with wonder.--Smith, Julia Copyright 2015 Booklist
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-This much-pared-down picture book adaption takes a modern-looking heroine down the rabbit hole and through the first five chapters of Carroll's classic tale. Though some of the original dialogue is retained, the story is told in updated narration. The paintings create a dreamlike reality, depicting the creatures and landscapes of Wonderland with warm-hued brushstroked backgrounds, clean lines, unexpected color choices, and whimsical details. The playful use of shadow and perspective emphasize Alice's size shifts, as she consumes edibles that make her stature fluctuate between tiny and tremendous, treks through a river of her own tears, and, with the advice of a Blue Caterpillar, finally nibbles a mushroom and returns "to the right size. Phew!" The action abruptly ends there, with Alice pondering how to get home (and the tea party beckoning in the distance). VERDICT While some moments of the story are effectively depicted, the whirlwind pace covers too much territory too quickly, making it difficult to follow for those unfamiliar with the tale.-Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal (c) Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A much-abridged version of the classic's first five chapters, dressed up with large and properly surreal illustrations.Rhatigan and Nurnberg retain "Curiouser and curiouser!" and other select bits of the original while recasting the narrative in various sizes of type and a modern-sounding idiom: "Tiny Alice needed something special to eat to get back to her regular girl size." They take Carroll's bemused young explorer past initial ups and downs and her encounter with a certain (here, nonsmoking) Blue Caterpillar. Looking more to Disney than Tenniel, Puybaret casts Alice as a slender figure with flyaway corn-silk hair and big, blue, widely spaced eyes posing with balletic grace against broadly airbrushed backdrops. Leafless trees and barren hills give Wonderland an open, autumnal look. The odd vegetation adds an otherworldly tone, and compact houses and residents from the White Rabbit and the Dodo to occasional troupes of mice or other small creatures in circus dress are depicted with precise, lapidary polish. A marginally relevant endpaper map (partly blocked by the flaps) leads down the River of Tears, past a turnoff for a Bathroom and on toward "the Tea Party." Pretty, though as condensations go, less Wonder-full than Robert Sabuda's pop-up Alice (2003) or the digital Alicewinks (2013). (Picture book. 5-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Alice was sitting by the river having an oh-so-ordinary afternoon, when a White Rabbit ran by. Not just any old rabbit, but one with pink eyes, a red jacket, and a great big pocket watch. "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" he groaned, looking at his watch. Then ZIP! he disappeared down a rabbit hole. Alice did what any curious girl or boy would do. She followed him right into the hole. Excerpted from Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole by Lewis Carroll All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
