Last week, the Câmara Brasileira do Livro (Brazilian Book Guild) announced the winners of the 54th annual Jabuti Awards and we are pleased to relate that Alice found herself in… [read full post]
Brazilian honors for Aventuras de Alice no Subterrâneo
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A Little Something Alice for the Weekend
If you are wondering what you could do this weekend that might bring a little more Wonderland into your life, permit us to offer the following suggestions: If you live… [read full post]
“And Black Alice had heard Boojums weren’t supposed to be all that smart…”
The Lavinia Whateley was a Boojum, a deep-space swimmer, but her kind had evolved in the high tempestuous envelopes of gas giants, and their offspring still spent their infancies there, in cloud-nurseries… [read full post]
“Vintage” Kindle case adds story-time charm to your commute
Not sure if this is a paradox or a parody but here you have it: a kindle case made from the original covers of an Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (or Dracula). It… [read full post]
New Editions of Alice in Russian Illustrated by Gennady Kalinovskii
The superbly rendered, playful black and white illustrations of Gennady Kalinovskii have up to now only been available in editions by Detskaya Literatura published in Moscow: Wonderland in 1977, retold… [read full post]
The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice’s Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There
Hot off the board book press this month comes The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice’s Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There, conceived and illustrated by Eisner Award-winning Janet Lee with verses by Alethea… [read full post]
LCSNA Fall Meeting Announced and Two Book Sales Here and Now
September may be a whole summer away, but plans for LCSNA Fall 2012 Meeting are already coming together. Confirmed speakers include Adam Gopnik on Sylvie and Bruno and Robin Wilson, who… [read full post]
Gideon, Move Over: There’s an Alice for Everyone in Langham Hotels
All guests at the worldwide Langham chain of luxury hotels this year find in their rooms a “keep me” copy of Wonderland, the Penguin edition with a new pink cover bearing… [read full post]
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]
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]