Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Amazonundefined

Price last update: 09/03/2024

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A stunning new edition of Lewis Carroll's classic children's tale. Curiouser and curiouser!' Reimagined by the illustrations of Kate Greenaway Medal winner Grahame Baker-Smith, this stunning new edition of a childhood favourite will transport a whole new generation of readers down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland. Conjured one 'golden afternoon' in 1867, the story of Alice has charmed readers for more than 150 years. Now readers can rediscover a host of favourite characters, from the despotic Queen of Hearts to the riddling Cheshire Cat, in a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Second in a new range of beautifully illustrated Templar Classics from the award-winning talent of Grahame BakerSmith.
Recenzja
"Stunning full-bleed digital illustrations depict the story of water and its cycles...Lovely and accessible." --
School Library Journal
on
The Rhythm of the Rain
"Baker-Smith's gilded images of the father's elaborate winged contraptions and placid spreads of sky and clouds offer hope." --
Publishers Weekly
on
FArTHER
"Baker-Smith's digitally created illustrations draw on painterly techniques and photography to create a fantastically touched reality. ... [D]reamy art will draw visually attuned youngsters." --
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Book
s on
FArTHER
"Strains of melancholy color this extraordinarily lovely meditation on longing. ... Elemental and sophisticated at once." --
ForeWord Reviews
on
FArTHER
" [Baker-Smith's] figures, hovering in that magical middle ground between fantasy and realism, possess idiosyncratic stylistic flourishes that make for instant appeal. Realistically textured and timeless clothing grounds his lushly fantastical environments, giving his images an evocative and even haunting quality. Many children will be visually captivated and want to pass their fingers again and again over the intricate surfaces of the mechanical wings the father invents. ... Beautiful and resonant..." --
Booklist Online
on
FArTHER
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A stunning new edition of Lewis Carroll's classic children's tale. Curiouser and curiouser!' Reimagined by the illustrations of Kate Greenaway Medal winner Grahame Baker-Smith, this stunning new edition of a childhood favourite will transport a whole new generation of readers down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland. Conjured one 'golden afternoon' in 1867, the story of Alice has charmed readers for more than 150 years. Now readers can rediscover a host of favourite characters, from the despotic Queen of Hearts to the riddling Cheshire Cat, in a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Second in a new range of beautifully illustrated Templar Classics from the award-winning talent of Grahame BakerSmith.
O autorze
Grahame Baker-Smith
is a self-taught award-winning illustrator from Oxford who completed his training at Berkshire School of Art. He has worked in illustration for twenty years and in 2011 won the Greenaway Medal for his inspiring tale of fatherhood,
Farther
. He has illustrated numerous other picture books for Templar, including
The Rhythm of the Rain
which won the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Greenaway shortlisted
Leon and the Place Between
.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
, better known as
Lewis Carroll
, was an English writer, logician and mathematician. Born in 1832, he is best known for the novels
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and
Through the Looking Glass
, as well as his nonsense poems. The character of Alice was in fact based on a real child, Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where Carroll taught mathematics. Many of the adventures in Wonderland are thought to be based on a picnic with Alice and her two sisters.
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