Hardcover, 128 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2004 by Mediasat Group.

ISBN:
978-84-9789-701-3
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OCLC Number:
67401530

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4 stars (13 reviews)

When Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, she discovers an extraordinary new world where everything works quite differently. There are strange potions that make you shrink — or expand to giant size: some very odd tea parties; gardeners who paint the roses; and a cat who disappears, leaving behind its grin. She meets a range of eccentric characters, including the Mad Hatter. the March Hare, the sleepy Dormouse, Tweedle Dum and Tweedie Dee and, of course, the croquet-playing Duchess.

Just as soon as Alice leams the rules of each crazy situation, they seem to change again. How can she get back to her own world? And will she ever catch up with the White Rabbit? Lewis Carroll's mad extravaganza is a pure joy from start to finish.

155 editions

Usually a fan of Oxenbury, but perhaps Tenniel has eaten my brain

3 stars

Look, illustrating Alice is hard. You're laboring in the shadow of Tenniel, and the comparison is going to be made. You can lean into the Tenniel iconography and add your own spin to it, as Disney did, or you can fight it tooth and nail. That's what Oxenbury's doing here, but she's working so hard to be Not Tenniel that she's forgetting to have any fun with it. Thus we have a Cheshire Cat that somehow "grins" without showing any teeth, playing-card people who just look like they're wearing playing cards, and weirdly sterile environments that seem terrified to include any imagery that isn't explicitly detailed in the text. Characters often float along with minimal background. Their expressions seem muted. If anything, it feels like Oxenbury is trying to bring a sort of naturalism to her illustrations here, which is, frankly, kind of a bonkers way of going about illustrating …

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