Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions)

Beloved classic describes a little girl's adventures in a topsy-turvy land underground and her encounters with such improbable characters as the White Rabbit, March Hare and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, and the dreadful Queen of Hearts. Includes all 42 of Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations.

Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

Here are the adventure girls AKA the Dynagirl. From left to right, let me introduced them: -The AA Adventure Girl, in my opinion she is the most interesting with her afro look, she seems to be just from a soap from the seventies! -Next to her is the clone of Farrah Fawcett, this version was sold with a disco outfit and a skate board. Mine has poor hair but this doll used to have grey/blond shiny hair. She is the only one with smiling teeth! -The last on the right is the brunette Adventure Girl in original outfit, right from her box (next to her). -In front of them is the blonde Adventure Girl with jungle outfit. Those dolls were the answer to Hasbro Action Girl's (sold only in Europe) you can easily recognize the link between them: jointed bodies and moulded underwear (black for the Action Girls and white for the Adventure Girls). The four dolls share the same head mold and three different Adventure Men was available at the time: AA Adventure Man, bearded Adventure Man and regular version of Adventure Man. A gay version of Adventure Man, Gay Bob was produced and he was blond and anatomically correct!

i finally finished baby james' quilt, sorry the photo is blurry. it's taken me most of the year but i'm finally done. yay! it should last him for quite a while and this is something he's not likely to outgrow any time soon. i made this quilt by using up outgrown/unwanted clothing from everyone in the family and i was even able to incorporate something from our Nan and Grandpa, i didn't have anything from our other Grandpa and Grandma. it felt good to use up all our old clothes.

Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and, a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine's words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months...) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped stockings, gazing up at the Cheshire Cat or arguing with Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Tenniel's drawings remained black and white for over 40 years until 1911, when eight prints in each book were hand colored. Now, for the first time, every remaining illustration has been colored, making these the first editions to feature all of the original art in full color. Traditionalists need not worry: colorist Diz Wallis colored proofs taken from Tenniel's carefully preserved woodblocks, remaining faithful to his original drawings. The beautiful tones of these new hardcover editions look as natural as can be; they could just as easily be from the 19th century. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter