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  • February 21, 2019
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Go Ask Alice – The New Yorker

June 1, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

Good piece about Lewis Carroll by The New Yorker’s film ciritic, Anthony Lane:

The latest entrant to the Carrollian maze is Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, who has written “The Story of Alice” (Belknap). As someone who teaches English at Magdalen College, Oxford, he is nicely positioned for the task—a stroll away from Christ Church, the college where the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson taught mathematics, and the longtime residence of Lewis Carroll, who was almost, but not quite, the same person. The pair of them tussled, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Carroll gave a peculiar definition of himself:

One who, having been unlucky enough to perpetrate two small books for children, has been bullied ever since by the herd of lion-hunters who seek to drag him out of the privacy he hoped an “anonym” would give him.
It is a miracle, in retrospect, that the small books should have earned such global fame. After all, they are not merely British, and not merely Victorian, but nineteenth-century Oxonian—as fastidious as Carroll himself, who complained to the college steward about the cooking of cauliflower at dinner and the hour at which his window cleaners had arrived. Other Oxford men, no less conservative in their tastes, and no less religiously observant, have sat in their rooms and conjured alternative lands, named Narnia and Middle-earth, but only Carroll dared to import into his creation the quizzical habits that he observed in his surroundings. Things in Oxford have a habit of being other than what they sound like. The House is not a house but another name for Christ Church; a Student, at the House, is not a student but a fellow; and going up and coming down, at Oxford and Cambridge, refer not to elevators but to arrivals and departures. To be sent down is the gravest penalty of all; what sin has Alice committed, one wonders, to be dispatched so abruptly down a rabbit hole?

via Go Ask Alice – The New Yorker.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Alice, Dodgson, Lewis Carroll

Anthony Browne: how I re-imagined Alice in Wonderland

March 30, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

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What’s it like to illustrate a book already known for its iconic illustrations? Alice in Wonderland, originally drawn by Sir John Tenniel, was first published 150 years ago; here Anthony Browne describes his new surreal take on Alice. Look out for the primates!

Recommend you click the link to see 10 full colour illustrations from the book:

via Anthony Browne: how I re-imagined Alice in Wonderland | Children's books | The Guardian.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Alice, classic, illustration

My hero: Sir John Tenniel by Chris Riddell

January 13, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Chris Riddell picks Sir John Tenniel as his Hero in The Guardian’s weekly Review feature:

As a child I copied Tenniel’s illustrations from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye. I loved analysing the shading, intricate lines of cross-hatching, the folds of the sleeve, the tilt of the head, that wide-eyed rabbit stare. Tenniel was one of the reasons I became an illustrator.

via My hero: Sir John Tenniel by Chris Riddell | Books | The Guardian.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Photography/Art Tagged With: Alice, cartoon, cartoonist, Chris Riddell, illustration, illustrator, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll

Two New Works From Emma Chichester Clark

October 10, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Two new books illustrated by the wonderful Emma Chichester Clark, and if that’s not good enough there are two videos in which she talks about them. We even get to see Plum!
Highly recommended…

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Alice, Emma Chichester Clark, illustration, illustrator, Pinocchio

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Bids Goodbye to Alice

August 7, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

After 28 years and 28 novels, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is wrapping up her series starring Alice McKinley with Now I’ll Tell You Everything, due from Atheneum on October 15. The author, whose 135-book oeuvre includes the 1992 Newbery Medal-winning Shiloh, introduced Alice in 1985 as an easily embarrassed adolescent growing up without a mother in The Agony of Alice. The series, which has 2.5 million copies in print, subsequently followed Alice through the years, a few months at a time, until the summer after high school graduation. The grand finale brings her to college graduation and well beyond – to the age of 60.
Naylor, who sold The Agony of Alice to the late Jean Karl at Atheneum (who had previously edited Naylor’s Witch series), didn’t initially envision the novel as the first in a series. “That was not in my head at all at the start,” she told PW. “I began thinking about embarrassing things that happened to me during my life – tell me a year and I can tell you something embarrassing that happened – and I thought that might make a funny story. And then when the book was published, reviewers began mentioning that Alice’s fans will await her further adventures, and that’s when we decided on making a series.”

via Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Bids Goodbye to Alice.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Alice, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, series

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