Time to give a shout-out to the Pook Press of Alcester, Warwickshire, UK, which is producing an inexpensive series of facsimile editions, “celebrat[ing] the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration’ in… [read full post]
Golden Age Illustrators
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Lewis Carroll and Alice-related books
Oleg Lipchenko’s Looking-Glass!
In 2009, Oleg’s fabulous illustrations to Wonderland were awarded the annual IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award, which honors outstanding artistic talent in Canadian picture books. His 2012 Snark is also… [read full post]
North America’s First PhD in Publishing
Dr. Amanda Lastoria of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia has earned North America’s first PhD in Publishing. Her thesis, “The material evolution of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: How book… [read full post]
Found in Translation
The 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of The Annotated Alice has just been published by Aki Shobo in Japanese translation. Although smaller in format and all in black-and-white, I’m sure all… [read full post]
Alice in Hogwarts Land
London’s Miraphora Mina and Rio de Janeiro’s Eduardo Lima started working together in 2002 to imagine and create the graphic universe of the Harry Potter™ film series. In 2009 they… [read full post]
Van Sandwyk!
In KL 97:54, we reviewed an Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk and bemoaned the fact that The Folio Society published it only in a deluxe limited… [read full post]
Russian Books with Lots of Extras
Labyrinth, the Russian publisher, has issued the Alice dyad in luxurious Russian-language editions with lots of “extras”: tip-ins, fold-outs, pop-ups, inserts, booklets, ribbons, etc. View a video about Looking-glass here…. [read full post]
Christian Birmingham’s Wonderland
Christian Birmingham is a British artist who has illustrated some of the finest authors in children’s and adult literature. He has won the Whitbread (now Costa) Children’s Book of the… [read full post]
A West African Wonderland
Mia Araujo (b. 1986) is a phenomenally talented artist and writer currently working on an illustrated YA/Adult novel adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. “My retelling of this classic story takes… [read full post]
Seeking It with Thimbles: Fine Press and Artist’s Books
This seems to be a banner year for hunting particularly elegant Snarks. The Cheshire Cat Press of Toronto last year published a fine-press Snark illustrated by Byron Sewell (42 copies,… [read full post]