Renowned origamist Pasquale D’Auria’s take on Alice in Wonderland, using illustrations by Lá Studio and an adapted text by Alberto Bertolazzi has been published by Dover (ISBN: 978-0486820965). Pat Olski’s crochet patterns for Alice in Wonderland make another Dover book (ISBN: 978-0486807348).

Digital photomontagist Maggie Taylor’s Looking-Glass companion to her superb Wonderland, subject of Andrew Sellon’s glowing review in the Knight Letter (KL 81:43), is now available. The online photo-eye Gallery is showing six of her new images for sale, and the Catherine Couturier gallery in Houston has many others and hosted an exhibition from April 7- May 12 of her Looking-Glass work. One hundred limited editions were printed, each including an 8 x 8 print of the cover image (left). To purchase one ($800), email gallery@catherinecouturier.com or call (713) 524-5070. A trade edition ($95) was published by Moth House and is also obtainable through the gallery.

The Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford has produced a set of six posters called “C. L. Dodgson, Oxford Mathematician,” which are available for free download and, presumably, printing. Here is the main outreach site, on which you’ll have to scroll down to “Charles Dodgson,” or simply go here to download the .pdf. They are designed for “AO” paper (33.1 by 46.8 inches; 118.9 x 84.1 cm) at full size, but of course you can print them up at any size you want. The posters were conceived by Robin Wilson, with the assistance of Raymond Flood, Dyrol Lumbard, and Edward Wakeling.

Thanks to Stuart Moskowitz for alerting us to these!

David Elliot’s  lavishly illustrated Snark: Being a true history of the expedition that discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock … and its tragic aftermath, published by Otago University Press, has taken not one, but two of New Zealand’s most prominent Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Enthusiastically reviewed both on our blog and the Knight Letter (KL 98:43), where it also provided the cover illustration, the book has won both the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award  and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration for 2017, announced on Monday evening in Wellington.

Our sincerest congratulations to David, and our highest recommendation to all Carrollians to aquire a copy of this book! (You can get it from the distributors for the same price as on Amazon.)

British artist Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz’s 2011 exhibition I Have an Excellent Idea…..Let’s Change the Subject at the All Visual Arts Gallery in London has just come to our attention. His mashups involving Alice can be seen here. For a hearty laugh, do enjoy his dead-on satire of overblown “ArtSpeak.”

(Unless, Heaven forfend, he was serious?)

Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Pirelli calendar for 2018 was styled by British Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful, the first black man to helm a mainstream women’s fashion magazine, and shot by Tim Walker. Its stars include Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Campbell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Ru Paul, who portrays the Queen of Hearts. Read more about it and its social implications in the Huffington Post, The New York Times, British Vogue, etc.

French illustrator Benjamin Lacombe, whose Wonderland (well, Alice au pays des merveilles) was enthusiastically reviewed by Adriana Peliano in Knight Letter 97, has completed the companion Looking-glass (Alice de l’autre côté du miroir), both published by Soleil Productions. You can buy it individually or boxed with his Wonderland. There is also a blank notebook with his Alice on the cover available. ISBNs:

• 978-2302048478 – Wonderland
• 978-2302055971 – Looking-glass
• 978-2302059214 – boxed, combined
• 978-2302058378 – notebook (“carnet”)

The Alice in Wonderland Room at Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, of course. “The room interior, including the beds and other furniture, is designed with motifs of the Queen of Hearts, the Card Soldiers, the Cheshire Cat and other images from the [1951] Disney film.” Click here and scroll about halfway down the page.