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A New Hungarian Alice from Evertype

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For those of you who have missed prior posts on this topic, prolific translation publisher Michael Everson is a devoted Carrollian, and is dedicated to publishing as many translations of the Alice books as humanly possible.  The latest is a new version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Hungarian, translated by Anikó Szilágyi.  To read more about the new edition, and Michael’s many other Carrollian titles, click here or click the image on this post.  Other recent editions include Samoan, Synthetic Scots, and Neo!

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Depp Returns as Mad Hatter for Disney’s Into The Looking Glass

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From the “knock me over with a tea tray” department comes news reported by one of our faithful Mimsy Minions: Johnny Depp is set to return as the Mad Hatter in Disney’s inevitable sequel to their shockingly successful 3D Alice in Wonderland.  The new film, tentatively titled Into the Looking Glass, will be directed by James Bobin rather than Tim Burton.  Screenwriter Linda Woolverton is again on board, so we can probably expect more of the same.  But as she already used a number of Looking-Glass characters in the first film, it’s not clear what the cast of characters or plotline will be this time around.  For more information, click here.

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New List of Most Collectible Children’s Books

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If you’re an avid collector of vintage children’s literature editions, you might be interested in this updated list of the most collectible children’s books, according to Helen Younger of Aleph-Bet Books.  As one would expect, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland makes the list.  And note the clever way she handles the issue of the publication date.  Disappointingly, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There doesn’t make Younger’s list.  And don’t even think about The Hunting of the Snark.  So, whether we agree or disagree, it’s interesting to see one bookseller’s list based on 30 years in the rare book business.  To read the list, click here.  Thanks to one of our mimsy minions for this link.

Keep those blog submissions coming, minions!

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Sighting of a New Dutch Hunting of the Snark Edition

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Ahoy, Snark lovers!  Our own Mahendra Singh, who published a stunning edition himself a few years ago, has alerted us to the publication of a new Dutch version of Lewis Carroll’s immortal The Hunting of the Snark.  If you can read Dutch, you can find out more by clicking here.

If, like me, you can’t understand much beyond:

‘Precies de plek voor een Snark!’ riep de Man met de Bel'

you’ll still probably enjoy a peek at the sample illustration on that page!

UPDATE: If you’d like to buy a copy, but can’t read the Dutch instructions, here they are in English:

Send an email (in English) to Dick Ronner at mail@zolderman.nl; he’ll send you back a PayPal invoice for 18.25 euros (about $24.50) including postage.

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A Google Map of Lewis Carroll’s Visit to Moscow

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As any serious fan of Lewis Carroll knows, he only left his beloved British Isles once in his entire life.  And no, it was not to visit America and see a Broadway show–although I’m pretty sure he would have enjoyed that, too.  His one trip abroad was to Moscow.  He and his friend and traveling companion Henry Liddon both recorded copious observations in their diaries, and their thoughts are fascinating to read (If you haven’t already, check out The Russian Journal sometime).

Now, in keeping with modern times, the web site Russia: Beyond the Headlines has put together a brief article about the trip, including a Google map showing key destinations, so that you can walk in Lewis Carroll’s footsteps.  To read all about it (in English), click here!

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West Coast Premiere of New Lewis Carroll Play

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If you are a regular reader of our blog, you already know that LCSNA member Daniel Singer has written a playful two-character comedy depicting a fictional encounter between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens, and that the play’s premiere in NC was part of our Spring meeting this year.

I’m happy to announce that the play is now receiving its West Coast premiere, at the Actors Co-op in Hollywood, CA.  Daniel is involved with the production behind the scenes, and it is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.  The production runs only July 19-28.  If you’re in the area, I’d suggest you buy your tickets now, before they are all sold out!

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The 43rd Most Highlighted Phrase by Kindle Readers

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Speaking of privacy matters, in case you didn’t already know this, Amazon keeps track of what phrases are most often highlighted by folks who read their eBooks on Kindles.  Now, by all rights, if those folks using Kindle readers really knew their Carrolliana, they would have found a way to make it 42nd, but research has shown that following after a whole slew of Suzanne Collins/The Hunger Games quotes, the 43rd most highlighted phrase is the Duchess’s Escher-esque advice to Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland:

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

To read the full New Republic article about the highlighting habits of Kindle readers (and what it says about our culture), click here.

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Presenting One of Nature’s Carrollian Oddities: The Mad Hatterpillar

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Now of course, any Alice fan worth his or her salt knows that finding an oddball caterpillar in Wonderland is par for the course.  But the Huffington Post has a photo of a real caterpillar that not even John Tenniel could have dreamed up.

Apparently, as it grows, it stacks its old, outgrown heads on its current head as a kind of weird hat.  No one is quite sure why.  Protection?  Mating? Warning?  Fashion?  We’re quite confident that Lewis Carroll would have been delighted, whatever the reason.

To see this unusual and remarkably curious creature, click the illustration or click here.

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