Do you want an Alice in Wonderland poster? How big? How about 12″ x 18″? Sounds delightful. You can put it up in all manner of places (walls are one… [read full post]
New Alice in Wonderland Poster from Prospero Art
The Blog of the LCSNA
Month: May 2012
G.A.H.! (Gardner’s Annotations Hyperlinked) – As large as life, and twice as natural
In Chapter VII of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Unicorn looks at Alice “with an air of the deepest disgust” and asks, “What – is – this?”… [read full post]
Virtual dodo makes a comeback online and in 3D
Paleontologists and artists alike may be interested to hear of a new project to further our understanding of the unfortunate Raphus cucullatus, otherwise known as the dodo. Fewer that 300 years… [read full post]
The little-known story of Lewis Carroll and the girl from Staten Island
Have you ever heard the story of how Lewis Carroll inspired the career of Staten Island photographer Alice Austen? I thought not. Read all about it in Alice Austen’s Amazing… [read full post]
Benedict Cumberbatch also known as Bandersnatch Cummerbund
A bandersnatch was in the news today, but it was widely assumed to be a typo. The actor who plays the titular role in BBC One’s Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch, had… [read full post]
G.A.H.! (Gardner’s Annotations Hyperlinked) – The Dormouse and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Wombat
The Dormouse in Chapter VII of The Annotated Alice (pgs. 93-95) gets the following footnote from Martin Gardner: The British dormouse is a tree-living rodent that resembles a small squirrel… [read full post]
Alice in Hawaiian and six more languages besides
It has been some time since we mentioned the stream of new translations flowing from the fount of Evertype Publishing, but that is not because that stream has abated. Six… [read full post]
Alice in Wonderland Illustrations by Kodomos, a chic Spanish artist
Thanks to Adriana Peliano at the Sociedad Lewis Carroll do Brasil for alerting us to this Spanish artist who has a few eerie illustrations of Alice in Wonderland. The artist… [read full post]
YouTube Review of Alice in Wonderland by a young Singaporean girl
Do you remember, as a child, the first time you encountered Lewis Carroll’s book? We may have all had a few embarrassing thoughts, comparing it to more famous later adaptations. Or perhaps… [read full post]
G.A.H.! (Gardner’s Annotations Hyperlinked) – The Ugly Duchess
When we first meet the Duchess in Chapter VI of The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner’s footnote (on page 82) is this: A glance at the portrait of the Ugly Duchess,… [read full post]