Saturday, 4 September 2010
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Ill. Robert Ingpen
Templar Publishing (2009)
192 pages
Ill. Robert Ingpen
Templar Publishing (2009)
192 pages
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Alice' Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Harry Riley, no dust jacket.
Ill. Harry Riley
Pub, Arthur Barron (1945)
Pub, Arthur Barron (1945)
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Disney Alice In Wonderland
Ladybird book of Disney film.
Abridged version.
Ill. after Disney
44 pages
Ladybird (1997)
Abridged version.
Ill. after Disney
44 pages
Ladybird (1997)
Monday, 9 August 2010
Alice In Wonderland Story Box
Set of greetings cards and envelopes with a book containing some poems and songs with Tenniel illustrations.
Story Box Classics
Studio Designs (1992)
Story Box Classics
Studio Designs (1992)
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Not one I actually own
I don't currently own a copy of this but a comment on an earlier entry has led me to mention it. Here's the comment in full.
Happy to oblige.Hi, Would like to flag up our Alice in Wonderland MP3 audiobook consisting of the unabridged Alice's Adventures plus a selection of Carroll's nonsense poems and prose pieces. Entertaining narration by Oxfordshire actors. Recorded in Oxford. CD pressed and packaged in Sony factory. It was a mad project for my husband and me but worth the effort to receive positive feedback from The Times' audiobook reviewer and President of Lewis Carroll Society of North America. We are currently holding an online nonsense competition. All details and audio sample on www.storypods.co.uk. It would be great to get a mention or exchange of links. Thank you!
Friday, 6 August 2010
Walt Disney's Alice In Wonderland
Very short abridgement of AIW with illustrations from Walt Disney Film
Disney Enterprises (2003)
22 pages
Disney Enterprises (2003)
22 pages
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Sherlock Holmes And The Alice In Wonderland Murders
Sherlock Holmes And the Alice In Wonderland Murders
A Sherlock Holmes story with a loose Alice In Wonderland connection.
Written by Barry Day
Pub. Oberon (1997)
A Sherlock Holmes story with a loose Alice In Wonderland connection.
Written by Barry Day
Pub. Oberon (1997)
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Bad Alice
An interesting book using Alice for inspiration.
Written by Jean Ure
Pub. Hodder Children's Books (2003)
Review
Written by Jean Ure
Pub. Hodder Children's Books (2003)
Review
It’s impossible to review this book adequately without giving away the major plot points so if you are likely to read it -- and in spite of it being a very disturbing read I recommend that you do -- and don’t want to know in advance what it’s about then skip to the end of the review now.
Still here? Then let’s get on with it.
Bad Alice concerns the friendship between two children one summer. Duffy is a teenage boy with mild Tourette’s syndrome and Alice is the girl next door. Alice is a child that is universally agreed to be a bad sort – universally that is except for Duffy who strikes up an immediate friendship with her.
As the plot unfolds the disturbing nature of Alice’s family set up is revealed and the abusive relationship with her father is readily apparent to adult eyes reading the book if not to the adult characters. Duffy’s gradual realisation that his friend’s obsession with Alice in Wonderland masks very deep and real problems is poignant and painful to us because we have seen coming what we know he must eventually realise. Alice’s problems become most apparent through the version of Alice in Wonderland which she is secretly writing and allowing him to read. These sections are at times a little too knowing and articulate for a thirteen year old to have written but that is the only slight flaw in an otherwise brilliant but deeply disturbing book. This should be on recommended reading lists for all teenagers as the handling of one of the worst problems that exists in society is sensitive and intelligent and raising the awareness within teenagers that such problems don’t have to be simply endured must be a good thing.
Come to that raising the awareness of the problem among adults is also not a bad idea. Maybe, if enough people had their awareness raised then we could eradicate this kind of thing altogether and books like this would become unnecessary.
Final verdict. A sensitive, disturbing and above all necessary read.
Still here? Then let’s get on with it.
Bad Alice concerns the friendship between two children one summer. Duffy is a teenage boy with mild Tourette’s syndrome and Alice is the girl next door. Alice is a child that is universally agreed to be a bad sort – universally that is except for Duffy who strikes up an immediate friendship with her.
As the plot unfolds the disturbing nature of Alice’s family set up is revealed and the abusive relationship with her father is readily apparent to adult eyes reading the book if not to the adult characters. Duffy’s gradual realisation that his friend’s obsession with Alice in Wonderland masks very deep and real problems is poignant and painful to us because we have seen coming what we know he must eventually realise. Alice’s problems become most apparent through the version of Alice in Wonderland which she is secretly writing and allowing him to read. These sections are at times a little too knowing and articulate for a thirteen year old to have written but that is the only slight flaw in an otherwise brilliant but deeply disturbing book. This should be on recommended reading lists for all teenagers as the handling of one of the worst problems that exists in society is sensitive and intelligent and raising the awareness within teenagers that such problems don’t have to be simply endured must be a good thing.
Come to that raising the awareness of the problem among adults is also not a bad idea. Maybe, if enough people had their awareness raised then we could eradicate this kind of thing altogether and books like this would become unnecessary.
Final verdict. A sensitive, disturbing and above all necessary read.
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Las Aventuras de Alicia
Spanish translation of combined edition with extensive footnotes in Spanish
Standard Tenniel illustratons
Translated by Ramon Buckley
Tus Libros (1999)
Standard Tenniel illustratons
Translated by Ramon Buckley
Tus Libros (1999)
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (Film/Book)
Film book combination containing standard Tenniel edition of AIW and the 1972 William Sterling version of the film with Fiona Fullerton.
Book
Wordsworth Editions (1993)
Film
Starring Michael Crawford, Peter Sellers, Michael Hordern, Fiona Fullerton
Dir. William Sterling
1972
Wordsworth Editions (1993)
Film
Starring Michael Crawford, Peter Sellers, Michael Hordern, Fiona Fullerton
Dir. William Sterling
1972
Monday, 19 July 2010
Alice's Journey Beyond The Moon
Sequel by R.J.Carter
Illustrated by Lucy Wright
Telos, 2004
Sequels by other hands are often tricky beasts and never more so than when, as here, presented with the central conceit that they are a “lost manuscript” by the original author. This, like other pretenders, is of course no such thing. It is a new story. The problem with it is that the pretence that it is a lost Carroll manuscript extends to a series of long footnotes explaining how the various jokes and whimsies fit into the lives and events surrounding both Dodgson and Alice Liddell. These footnotes are done in the style of “The Annotated Alice” side by side with the text. For example the footnotes to one of the poems (giving the recipe for a rather unusual pie) explain that the ingredient “wet collodian” was a photographic chemical with which Dodgson would have been familiar and the nonsense word “queechy” refers to a novel by Elizabeth Wetherell that he gave to his sister Henrietta on her twelfth birthday. The depth of research into Dodgson’s life is impressive but as a literary device it all rapidly becomes rather tiresome and it’s a good idea to read the book through and ignore the footnotes altogether until you have finished.
What, then, of the story itself? At ninety pages it’s quite a thin tale but pastiches the style of Carroll quite well. Some of the puns and jokes are good and there are quite a lot of amusing touches. The artwork while not in the Tenniel style complements the story nicely and I suspect that there are many references and subtleties that a single reading has failed to reveal to me. The main problem is that at times it tries rather too hard to be clever. References to Descartes and an exposition of Zeno’s paradox are deftly handled but seem a little out of place. The insistence on explaining some of them in those annoying Gardneresque footnotes doesn’t help. As soon as you need to explain a joke it ceases to be funny.
The story has Alice journeying to the moon through the eyepiece of a telescope and while there having the kind of adventures that she had in Wonderland and through the looking glass. The style doesn’t quite hit the mark but comes much closer than Jeff Noon’s Automated Alice* (though not as close as Gilbert Adair’s Alice Through The Needle’s Eye *). This is “explained” by suggesting that the work was written some years after the original stories, again an explanation that is necessary only because the author insists on maintaining the fiction that this is a lost story.
What of the poems and songs? Once again they are in the correct style and character and with a nice whimsy but they lack the surety of Dodgson’s metre and caused me to stumble in trying to get the rhythms right.
Final verdict? A slight but diverting dreamlike tale which would have been all the better if more attention had been given to crafting a longer story and less to the learned and mock-erudite footnotes
Illustrated by Lucy Wright
Telos, 2004
Sequels by other hands are often tricky beasts and never more so than when, as here, presented with the central conceit that they are a “lost manuscript” by the original author. This, like other pretenders, is of course no such thing. It is a new story. The problem with it is that the pretence that it is a lost Carroll manuscript extends to a series of long footnotes explaining how the various jokes and whimsies fit into the lives and events surrounding both Dodgson and Alice Liddell. These footnotes are done in the style of “The Annotated Alice” side by side with the text. For example the footnotes to one of the poems (giving the recipe for a rather unusual pie) explain that the ingredient “wet collodian” was a photographic chemical with which Dodgson would have been familiar and the nonsense word “queechy” refers to a novel by Elizabeth Wetherell that he gave to his sister Henrietta on her twelfth birthday. The depth of research into Dodgson’s life is impressive but as a literary device it all rapidly becomes rather tiresome and it’s a good idea to read the book through and ignore the footnotes altogether until you have finished.
What, then, of the story itself? At ninety pages it’s quite a thin tale but pastiches the style of Carroll quite well. Some of the puns and jokes are good and there are quite a lot of amusing touches. The artwork while not in the Tenniel style complements the story nicely and I suspect that there are many references and subtleties that a single reading has failed to reveal to me. The main problem is that at times it tries rather too hard to be clever. References to Descartes and an exposition of Zeno’s paradox are deftly handled but seem a little out of place. The insistence on explaining some of them in those annoying Gardneresque footnotes doesn’t help. As soon as you need to explain a joke it ceases to be funny.
The story has Alice journeying to the moon through the eyepiece of a telescope and while there having the kind of adventures that she had in Wonderland and through the looking glass. The style doesn’t quite hit the mark but comes much closer than Jeff Noon’s Automated Alice* (though not as close as Gilbert Adair’s Alice Through The Needle’s Eye *). This is “explained” by suggesting that the work was written some years after the original stories, again an explanation that is necessary only because the author insists on maintaining the fiction that this is a lost story.
What of the poems and songs? Once again they are in the correct style and character and with a nice whimsy but they lack the surety of Dodgson’s metre and caused me to stumble in trying to get the rhythms right.
Final verdict? A slight but diverting dreamlike tale which would have been all the better if more attention had been given to crafting a longer story and less to the learned and mock-erudite footnotes
Friday, 16 July 2010
Alice In Wonderland: 17 Alltime Favourites
Audio CD containing abridged version of AIW and various children's songs and nursery rhymes
approx 1 hour
Going For A Song (year unknown)
approx 1 hour
Going For A Song (year unknown)
Sunday, 4 July 2010
Almost Alice
songs inspired by Tim Burton AiW film
includes Avril Lavigne, Franz Ferdinand, Wolfmother, Grace Potter, Owl City etc
Buena Vista Records, 2010
includes Avril Lavigne, Franz Ferdinand, Wolfmother, Grace Potter, Owl City etc
Buena Vista Records, 2010
Friday, 2 July 2010
Wonderland Revisited And the Games Alice Played There
sequel by Keith Sheppard
illustrated by Cynthi Brownell
Evertype, 2009
illustrated by Cynthi Brownell
Evertype, 2009
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators
Letters between Lewis Carroll and his illustrators
edited by Morton N. Cohen and Edward Wakeling
Cornell University Press, 2003
edited by Morton N. Cohen and Edward Wakeling
Cornell University Press, 2003
Monday, 28 June 2010
Saturday, 26 June 2010
The Red Kings Dream
byJo Elwyn Jones and J. Francis Gladstone
book examining sources of Lewis Carroll's writing
(mostly speculative)
Jonathan Cape, 1995
book examining sources of Lewis Carroll's writing
(mostly speculative)
Jonathan Cape, 1995
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Alice In Wonderland And Philosophy
edited by Richard Brian Davis
Philosophy book using Alice for examples
various authors
Wiley, 2010
Philosophy book using Alice for examples
various authors
Wiley, 2010
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Friday, 18 June 2010
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Monday, 14 June 2010
A New Alice In The Old Wonderland
Sequel by Ann M Richards (written and illustrated)
Originally published 1895
This edn. Wildside, 2000
Originally published 1895
This edn. Wildside, 2000
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Vol 1 and 2
English translation of Japanese cartoon
Loose adaptation
Apollo Film, Vienna 1984
Loose adaptation
Apollo Film, Vienna 1984
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
BBC Full-cast dramatisation
Starring David Bamber, Roy Hudd and Sarah-Jane Holm
BBC Audio
1999, 2006
Starring David Bamber, Roy Hudd and Sarah-Jane Holm
BBC Audio
1999, 2006
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Bunbury: Radical Sonora
Musical album, in Spanish
Cover art and one track (Alicia-expulsada al pais de las maravillas)
1997, EMI-ODEON
Cover art and one track (Alicia-expulsada al pais de las maravillas)
1997, EMI-ODEON
Friday, 4 June 2010
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Alice Im Wunderland
German audio adaptation
starring Franzika Mager, Christoph Schobsberher, Thoas Nicolai
translated by Karin Hahn and John Clark
horverlag
starring Franzika Mager, Christoph Schobsberher, Thoas Nicolai
translated by Karin Hahn and John Clark
horverlag
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Interactive Computer Version
(Includes 4 games)
Published by Living Classics
(Includes 4 games)
Published by Living Classics
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Alice in the Country of Hearts Volume 1
Japanese Manga Variation
Art by Soumei Hoshino
Story by Quinrose
Published by Tokyopop
Art by Soumei Hoshino
Story by Quinrose
Published by Tokyopop
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Alice In Wonderland
Soundtrack Album for TV version (Nick Willing)
Music by Richard Hartley
Hallmark , 1998
Music by Richard Hartley
Hallmark , 1998
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The Magic Token
Variation in which Alice is accompanied on her trip to Wonderland by a modern girl, Emma.
Written by Eugene Orlando
Illustrated by Tenniel
Published by iUniverse (2004)
Written by Eugene Orlando
Illustrated by Tenniel
Published by iUniverse (2004)
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Alice In Wonderland/Alice Through The Looking Glass
Made for TV version
TV version of both books. (180 m)
Starring Natalie Gregory, Scott Biao, Red Buttons, Sid Caeser, Sammy Davis Jr, Roddy McDowell, Robert Morley, Donald O'Connor, Telly Savalas, Ringo Starr, Shelley Winters
Produced by Irwin Allen
Directed by Harry Harris
1985
TV version of both books. (180 m)
Starring Natalie Gregory, Scott Biao, Red Buttons, Sid Caeser, Sammy Davis Jr, Roddy McDowell, Robert Morley, Donald O'Connor, Telly Savalas, Ringo Starr, Shelley Winters
Produced by Irwin Allen
Directed by Harry Harris
1985
Friday, 21 May 2010
Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland
Novelisation of screenplay
Novelisation by T.T. Sutherland
Screenplay by Linda Woolverton
Published by Puffin
Novelisation by T.T. Sutherland
Screenplay by Linda Woolverton
Published by Puffin
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Alice In Wonderland
Full reading of Alice In Wonderland
4 cassettes
Read by Christopher Plummer
Published by Caedmon Soundbooks
4 cassettes
Read by Christopher Plummer
Published by Caedmon Soundbooks
Monday, 17 May 2010
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Saturday, 15 May 2010
Alice In Rainforest Land
Ecologically themed sequel.
Written by Nadine Amadio.
Illustrated by Charles Blackman.
Published by Slawson Communications, 1988.
Written by Nadine Amadio.
Illustrated by Charles Blackman.
Published by Slawson Communications, 1988.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Alice's Journey Beyond The Moon
Sequel.
Written by R.J. Carter.
Illustrated by Lucy Wright.
Published by Telos, 2004
Written by R.J. Carter.
Illustrated by Lucy Wright.
Published by Telos, 2004
Review:
Sequels by other hands are often tricky beasts and never more so than when, as here, presented with the central conceit that they are a "lost manuscript" by the original author. This, like other pretenders, is of course no such thing. It is a new story. The problem with it is that the pretence that it is a lost Carroll manuscript extends to a series of long footnotes explaining how the various jokes and whimsies fit into the lives and events surrounding both Dodgson and Alice Liddell. These footnotes are done in the style of "The Annotated Alice" side by side with the text. For example the footnotes to one of the poems (giving the recipe for a rather unusual pie) explain that the ingredient "wet collodian" was a photographic chemical with which Dodgson would have been familiar and the nonsense word "queechy" refers to a novel by Elizabeth Wetherell that he gave to his sister Henrietta on her twelfth birthday. The depth of research into Dodgson's life is impressive but as a literary device it all rapidly becomes rather tiresome and it's a good idea to read the book through and ignore the footnotes altogether until you have finished.
What, then, of the story itself? At ninety pages it's quite a thin tale but pastiches the style of Carroll quite well. Some of the puns and jokes are good and there are quite a lot of amusing touches. The artwork while not in the Tenniel style complements the story nicely and I suspect that there are many references and subtleties that a single reading has failed to reveal to me. The main problem is that at times it tries rather too hard to be clever. References to Descartes and an exposition of Zeno's paradox are deftly handled but seem a little out of place. The insistence on explaining some of them in those annoying Gardneresque footnotes doesn't help. As soon as you need to explain a joke it ceases to be funny.
The story has Alice journeying to the moon through the eyepiece of a telescope and while there having the kind of adventures that she had in Wonderland and through the looking glass. The style doesn't quite hit the mark but comes much closer than Jeff Noon's Automated Alice* (though not as close as Gilbert Adair's Alice Through The Needle's Eye *). This is "explained" by suggesting that the work was written some years after the original stories, again an explanation that is necessary only because the author insists on maintaining the fiction that this is a lost story.
What of the poems and songs? Once again they are in the correct style and character and with a nice whimsy but they lack the surety of Dodgson's metre and caused me to stumble in trying to get the rhythms right.
Final verdict? A slight but diverting dreamlike tale which would have been all the better if more attention had been given to crafting a longer story and less to the learned and mock-erudite footnotes.
What, then, of the story itself? At ninety pages it's quite a thin tale but pastiches the style of Carroll quite well. Some of the puns and jokes are good and there are quite a lot of amusing touches. The artwork while not in the Tenniel style complements the story nicely and I suspect that there are many references and subtleties that a single reading has failed to reveal to me. The main problem is that at times it tries rather too hard to be clever. References to Descartes and an exposition of Zeno's paradox are deftly handled but seem a little out of place. The insistence on explaining some of them in those annoying Gardneresque footnotes doesn't help. As soon as you need to explain a joke it ceases to be funny.
The story has Alice journeying to the moon through the eyepiece of a telescope and while there having the kind of adventures that she had in Wonderland and through the looking glass. The style doesn't quite hit the mark but comes much closer than Jeff Noon's Automated Alice* (though not as close as Gilbert Adair's Alice Through The Needle's Eye *). This is "explained" by suggesting that the work was written some years after the original stories, again an explanation that is necessary only because the author insists on maintaining the fiction that this is a lost story.
What of the poems and songs? Once again they are in the correct style and character and with a nice whimsy but they lack the surety of Dodgson's metre and caused me to stumble in trying to get the rhythms right.
Final verdict? A slight but diverting dreamlike tale which would have been all the better if more attention had been given to crafting a longer story and less to the learned and mock-erudite footnotes.
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Алиса в страната на чудесата (Alice in Wonderland/Bulgarian)
Алиса в страната на чудесата
Bulgarian Translation of Alice In Wonderland.
Bulgarian Translation of Alice In Wonderland.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland: Soundtrack
Music by Danny Elfman for 2010 Tim Burton production.
Walt Disney Records
Walt Disney Records
Monday, 10 May 2010
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A New Musical
Original Cast Recording
Written by Paul Boyd
Paul Boyd Music
Green Dolphin Studios
1998
Written by Paul Boyd
Paul Boyd Music
Green Dolphin Studios
1998
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Little Tales: Alice In Wonderland
Miniature adaptation.
Retold by Stephanie Laslett.
Illustrated by Jenny Press.
Published by Paragon, 2001.
Retold by Stephanie Laslett.
Illustrated by Jenny Press.
Published by Paragon, 2001.
Friday, 7 May 2010
Alice In Wonderland: A Dance Fantasy
Ballet Adaptation of Alice In WOnderland
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Music by Viktor Kalabis
Published by V.I.E.W. Children's Cultural Collection
Bonus features, synopsis, documentary.
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Music by Viktor Kalabis
Published by V.I.E.W. Children's Cultural Collection
Bonus features, synopsis, documentary.
Little Treasury of Alice In Wonderland
Six cardboard mini-volume adaptation.
Retold by Jane Caruth.
Illustrated by Rene Cloke
Published by Award Publications, 1990
Retold by Jane Caruth.
Illustrated by Rene Cloke
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Alice At The Palace
"Music Hall" adaptation of Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass.
Starring Meryl Streep, Betty Aberlin, Debbie Allen, Michael Jeter
Broadway Theater Archive
82 minutes
Starring Meryl Streep, Betty Aberlin, Debbie Allen, Michael Jeter
Broadway Theater Archive
82 minutes
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Alice In Wonderland
Real Audio reading of Alice in Wonderland.
Published by WOUB Centre for public media
(c) Ohio University.
Published by WOUB Centre for public media
(c) Ohio University.
Monday, 3 May 2010
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Alice illustatrors
An old website linking to various other pages.
Caution site has not been updated since 1999. Links may be broken.
Caution site has not been updated since 1999. Links may be broken.
Friday, 30 April 2010
Alice In Puzzleland
Partly a sequel, partly a book of mathematical and logical puzzles.
Written by Raymond Smullyan
Introduction my Martin Gardner
Illustrated by Greer Fitting
Published by Penguin, 1984
Written by Raymond Smullyan
Introduction my Martin Gardner
Illustrated by Greer Fitting
Published by Penguin, 1984
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
The Ultimate Jabberwocky Page
The Ultimate Jabberwocky Page
Variations and translations of Jabberwocky, from Afrikaans to Welsh.
Variations and translations of Jabberwocky, from Afrikaans to Welsh.
Alice In Wonderland
Alice In Wonderland
Illustrator unknown.
Published by Birn Brothers (date unknown. Possibly 1920s)
Illustrator unknown.
Published by Birn Brothers (date unknown. Possibly 1920s)
Monday, 26 April 2010
Lauren Harman's Alice In Wonderland Page
Lauren Harman's Alice In Wonderland Page
Excellent site showing sample illustrations from many illustrators.
Excellent site showing sample illustrations from many illustrators.
Alice In The News
Alice in the News, A National Theatre Play
Written by Charles Way.
Published by Barrington Stoke, 2004
Spiral bound paperback.
Written by Charles Way.
Published by Barrington Stoke, 2004
Spiral bound paperback.
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