Ray Dyer, PhD, has taken the “fairy” story contained in Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, “here removed from its distracting asides, to be presented initially for specialist… [read full post]
The Blog of the LCSNA
Author: Mark Burstein
Dalí Alice Wins Gelett Burgess Award
It was just announced that the Dalí-illustrated Wonderland (the first trade edition) won the prestigious 2015 Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award in the Commemorative/Anniversary Edition category. Mark Burstein, its editor, very much… [read full post]
Children’s Opera on CD
Will Todd and Maggie Gottlieb’s popular and critical success of their sweet operatic adaptation for children (we wrote about it here) is now available on CD and iTunes. One only wishes it… [read full post]
Recent Updates to Sesquicen-Tenniel Book List
“Everybuddy wants to get into da act,” as Jimmy Durante was wont to say. In this Alice150 year, here is a recently updated list of books that have or are about to come… [read full post]
Alice150 Translation Conference Online!
A Most Literary Tea
What’s a tea-party without its prime ingredient? Simpson and Vail of Brookfield, Connecticut, has debuted a Literary Tea Line, including authors such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Joyce, and, yes, our man. Consisting… [read full post]
New Russian Translation of Wonderland
Poet/scholar Dmitry Yermolovich’s fine translation into Russian of The Hunting of the Snark and Other Tales (Охота на Угада и прочие странные истории) came out last year at about this… [read full post]
Sox Appeal
Columbia Alice150 Exhibit Celebrated!
Cathy Rubin has posted a lovely article in her “Global Search for Education” blog on the Huffington Post about the Alice150 exhibition at Columbia. It contains a link to her YouTube video… [read full post]
Adam Gopnik Reviews New Annotated Alice
The 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice was the subject of a long, thoughtful review by Adam Gopnik in the “Page-Turner” column on The New Yorker’s… [read full post]