Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass: Library Edition

from jchancel

My first introduction to Alice in Wonderland was seeing the Disney movie when I was little. I remember enjoying it, but at the same time being annoyed by the confusing nature. I read the book a couple years later. At the time I loved the storyline but was thoroughly frustrated by the books' lack ...

from aethercowboy

Is it a children's story or a primer on logic or even a work of wit and wisdom? Maybe it's all three. Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass make up the two Alice books by Lewis Carroll. And in these books, Carroll paints a strange world in which logic has a strange way about it, most...

from technodiabla

I read this to my 6 year old daughter. We both enjoyed it a great deal. In addition to being masterfully imaginative the writing is wonderful. The way Carroll plays with words is so much fun-- my daughter thought so too. This book is not just for kids, there are layers and layers of linguistuc ma...

from LisaMaria_C

I can't remember reading Alice in Wonderland in childhood, and enough feels unfamiliar that I don't think I ever did. Yet so much--so many of the images, phrases, characters and situations are very familiar, because this book is so woven into the popular culture. Yet it all read so fresh, was suc...

from quaintlittlehead

SLOW DOWN. This book is full of stories you think you know from the cobbling together of many movie versions and society's collective memories, and it jumps from one bit of nonsense to another, so it's easy, particularly as an adult, to dash through it like a white rabbit. But, though these works...