With fantastic characters and enchanting, rhythmic and sometimes nonsense language, Lewis Carroll created magical wonderlands. In his world, many things appear upside down and inside out, the rules of logic just don't apply, and everything pompous gets cut down to size. No surprise then that children love to visit this world sliding down the rabbit hole with Alice, battling the dreaded Jabberwock, or hunting for the mythical Snark. Carroll's classic works have never lost their fascination and this selection of 26, with Eric Copeland's savagely funny paintings that bring his fantastic realms to life, will become favourites with young readers: Father William; Humpty Dumpty's Song; Tweedledum and Tweedledee; Mock Turtle's song (early and final versions); Jabberwocky; Dreamland Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat; A Bat Beneath A Sunny Sky; Horros The Mad Gardener's Song; The White Queen's Song; A Sea Dirge The Walrus & The Carpenter; The White Rabbit's Evidence; Imaginative word images, classic poems, marvellous illustrations and helpful commentary. Plus biographical info. on this great British writer. In full colour: with 33 specially commissioned paintings by East Anglian-born watercolourist Eric Copeland.

 

This book is part of a book series called Poetry For Young People .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Sterling Juvenile .

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898. Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865. Eric Copeland was born and educated in Essex, England, and has illustrated several children's books, including The Wind in the Willows and Brer Rabbit . Eric's work has appeared in numerous magazines and educational publications. He works on watercolors and pastels full time from his studio in the hills outside Toronto, where he lives with his wife. Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and has taught at both Harvard and Yale. He has numerous books and articles to his credit; has won such prestigious grants as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; and is Literary Executor of the estate of poet W. H. Auden.