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One Day in Wonderland: A Celebration of Lewis Carroll's Alice


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No. of pages 32

Published: 2020

Great for age 7-10 years

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A joyful, playful celebration of Lewis Carroll's love of language combined with an introduction to his life and the origin of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, exquisitely illustrated by Jlia Sard.The wordsmith Lewis Carroll is famed for the freewheeling world of Wonderland in his beloved classics Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this gloriously illustrated book, Carroll's childlike love of life is showcased alongside his brilliance at creating and adapting playful words and phrases. From brillig and uglification to frumious and chortle, the award-winning author Kathleen Krull uses many of Carrolls own words to tell the story of a man who wanted to make children laugh and whose legacy continues to entertain and delight. There is a glossary of Carroll's invented words at the back of the book.Jlia Sard's striking illustrations offer an interpretation of Lewis Carroll's work that is faithful to the spirit of his writing and the look of the real life Alice. Packed with rich and surprising details, Jlia's artwork makes this a stunning book to treasure. Fans will enjoy the complete and unabridged edition of Alice's Adventures of Wonderland with gorgeous colour illustrations by Jlia Sard throughout, also published by Two Hoots.One Day in Wonderland is the perfect gift for all fans of Alice, young and old.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 7-11 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2020 by Pan Macmillan .

Kathleen Krull, the noted social historian, lives in San Diego, California. Boris Kulikov, the illustrator of the series, lives in New York City.

 

This book features the following characters:

Lewis Carroll
Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!L ewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by one of the Dean's daughters, Alice Liddell. The books were hugely successful and brought Carroll wide acclaim, especially for the nonsense poems Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark.

Alice
This book features the character Alice.