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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation-including this stunning colour illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrated throughout by Joe Todd Stanton, creator of the Brownstone Chronicles.
Follow Alice down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland, a world that grows curiouser and curiouser by the minute... but don't be latel
"We're all mad here."
Lost in a strange world with even stranger characters, Alice meets a Cheshire Cat with a great big grin, a tea-sipping and riddle-speaking Hatter, and a very clever Caterpillar. But things take a tum when she meets a short-tempered Queen
Will Alice make it home in time?
Lewis Carroll (Author)
Lewis Carroll, bom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderfand, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.
- Introducing Puffin Classics illustrated Programme: stunning and highly coveted illustrated editions celebrating the best-loved classics.
- This illustrated edition is the ideal introduction to Lewis Carroll's best loved classic story, which is 160 years old in 2025
- This lavish hardback edition is complete with specially commissioned colour illustrations throughout by Joe Todd Stanton, quirky Studio Ghibli-inspired characters, and a colour palette that takes this much-loved classic story in a dreamy new direction.
- Joe Todd Stanton is the author and illustrator of the bestselling Brownstone Chronicles and The Secret of Black Rock as well as the illustrator of other titles including Kiki's Delivery Service
- With over 1.8M books sold across the collection, Puffin Classics continue to be the best in class, bringing the best-loved classics to a new generation.
Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Lewis Carroll's
novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the
Looking-Glass (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively) have
entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their
magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully
logical illogic epitomize the wit and whimsy of Carroll's writing.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland transports you down the
rabbit-hole into a wondrous realm that is home to a White Rabbit, a
March Hare, a Mad Hatter, a tea-drinking Dormouse, a grinning
Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts and her playing-card retainers,
and all manner of marvelous creatures. Through the Looking-Glass is
your passport to a topsy-turvy world on the other side of the
mirror, where you have to run fast just to stay in place, memory
works backwards, and it is possible to believe as many as six
impossible things before breakfast. Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is the first in a new
collection of Children's Deluxe editions. These volumes will
feature foil-stamped binding and distinctive gilt edging and an
attractive ribbon bookmark. Additionally, this new deluxe
leather-bound edition features colored illustrations of John
Tenniel.
Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the
best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the
classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also
features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno
Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse "The Hunting of the
Snark," and miscellaneous poems, short stories, puzzles, and
acrostics.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom.
So too are Carroll’s delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of
English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tweedledum
and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and
the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar
figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's
delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the
inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The
Jabberwocky.
Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking Glass (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively)
have entertained readers young and old for more than a century.
Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and
playfully logical illogic epitomize the whit and whimsy of
Carroll's writing. Both stories feature the coloured classic
illustrations of John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in wonderland and
Through the Looking Glass is one of Barnes & Noble's Ieather
bound classics for children. It features classic illustrations, an
elegant bonded leather binding, a satin-ribbon bookmark, and
distinctive gilt edging.
This edition includes fifty illustrations by John Tenniel.
Have a tea party in Wonderland with this abridged retelling of
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, part of the
bestselling Classic Starts® series that has sold more than 8
million copies!  “Life, what is it but a dream?†In
Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls down a rabbit hole to find herself
in a bizarre land ruled by a ruthless Queen of Hearts. In Through
the Looking-Glass, Alice visits another fantastical world where
everything is reversed. Is it all real, just a figment of Alice’s
imagination, . . . or both? This abridged retelling is the perfect
way to introduce young readers to the grinning Cheshire Cat,
Tweedledee, Tweedledum, and the Jabberwocky.
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