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    Alice In Wonderland
    Alice In Wonderland
    Alice In Wonderland
    Audiobook38 minutes

    Alice In Wonderland

    Written by Lewis Carroll

    Narrated by Cassandra Harwood and Harry Man

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    Step into the magical world of Wonderland in this retelling of Lewis Carroll’s enduring classic, from the highly-regarded, prize-winning illustrator of Blue Kangaroo and Melrose and Croc.

    When Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole she discovers the extraordinary world of Wonderland, where a magical adventure begins. It’s not long before Alice finds herself attending a very unconventional tea party and taking part in a peculiar game of croquet, all in the company of such mysterious and unforgettable characters as the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Mock Turtle.

    Lewis Carroll’s classic story is brought alive for a new generation of readers in this exquisite book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 30, 2010
    ISBN9780007371327
    Author

    Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted and entranced children for over a hundred years. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he studied at Christ Church College, Oxford where he became a mathematics lecturer. The Alice stories were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his college

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    • 1/5
      Being a big fan of the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland I had high expectations when I picked up this book but I was surprisingly disappointed. I found Alice to be quite the little annoyance. Much more 'childish' than I expected. I also found myself bored of the novel half way through.I understand this is a children's story but the writing was not as I had expected from a novel that is considered a classic. The concept of the story is brilliant beyond words and has the greatest potential to be amazing and yet the writing was flat and at times awkward to read.This is the first novel-turned-movie, that I actually prefer the movie over the actual novel.
    • 2/5
      i must be getting old....did not connect very well with this supposed timeless classic......just kind of strange...but it's ok....i'll be fine.....no longer have to say i never read it!
    • 2/5
      The most over-rated book of all time in my opinion - in the face of stiff opposition from Pilgrim's Progress and Catcher in the Rye, to name but a few. I was both bored and disturbed by the claustophobic and nightmarish nonsensity of this messy fever dream of ghastly characters. The mad hatter, that terrible queen, all those odd substances saying eat me and drink me, then swimming through the sea of dormouse tears - most off-putting. Mind you, that might have been 'Through the Looking Glass', possibly the only book I hated even more than Wonderland.
    • 4/5
      Lewis Carroll takes the reader through a maze of color characters, confusing plots and bizarre experiences. It's a topsy turvy world where the rules Alice once knew are no longer relevant. Alice can grow bigger and smaller with potions and mushrooms, there are cats that disappear, a queen who wants to chop off everyones head, a scurrying white rabbit, and a tea party with a mad hatter. Alice continues to run into such strange uncommon experiences, often questioning herself and reciting the prose from school lessons. A mock turtle who cries and tells school tales, almost drowning in her own tears and the insanity of tweedle dee and tweedle dum. This is a classic but is so far from reality that it is timeless for the reader and imagination.
    • 5/5
      This may be my new favourite edition of this book! The illustrations and the layout are simply wonderful. I am just so impressed with this book!I love the “Alice” books by Lewis Carroll. I love the clever word play throughout as well as the wonderful imagery. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has some of the best nonsense poems in it as well as some fascinating philosophical questions. The Cheshire Cat’s statement about everyone being mad is an interesting statement. Is everyone really mad or is it just perception? Alice provides an interesting view into this world where everything is topsy-turvy. I just find the set up and the craziness very interesting.The illustrations and layout of this book are so perfect for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that it’s incredible. One of my favourite things was that each chapter started in very large print and slowly shrunk so that by the end of the chapter’s first page the text is down to the size it is on every other page. This is a great design choice because of the constant size shifts throughout the entire book. Alice never really knows from one minute to the next what size she is going to be and the size change in the text really reflects those changes.The illustrations themselves are very interesting. The photographer, Mr. Morell, cut out and sometimes enlarged the classic illustrations for this book by Tenniel. Then he set them up in small scenes using books, props, plants and various other things and photographed the result. The pictures he created are so wonderful! They use books in particular in a wonderful way. The rabbit hole is a hole through a book, the tea table (where the interesting and funny word play conversations take place) is a dictionary, and Alice’s giant hand reaches out of a book for the white rabbit when she has grown to fill his house. The images are simply incredible! I just love the cleverness of the choices. The lighting and placement is always perfect, like in the Cheshire Cat image where the shadow creates a second tree trunk making the image even more confusing and magical than it was originally!This book is wonderfully put together. I love the images and the book is really one of my favourite stories. I wish I could find Through the Looking Glass done by this illustrator! I highly recommend this book. If you are looking for a really good edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this is the one to get!
    • 4/5
      Ya, I know it's a children's book. But certain children stories transcend age and have something to say to people of every age. Such is this one. Tightly written the character and plot develop right away, the humour is also quite amusing this story takes a little thinking on what it actually means
    • 4/5
      It's very famous story.I read before,but I didn't remember this story.Recently,ALICE movie was held.I saw the movie.I'm very interested in reading this story.
    • 4/5
      First line:~ Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictiures or conversation, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?~I found this book intriguing and boring at the same time. I think that I have been contaminated by the movies and television shows so the book seemed too 'plain'. Not enough colour. It is one of the few times that I can say that I enjoyed the movie more than the book; usually it is the other way around.I did find that the change of topics from chapter to chapter was inconsistent but when you see that the whole thing is a dream, well, that is how dreams work isn't it? Not much connection between one thing and another, jumping from scene to scene. If I was going to read this to my children I would choose some kind of a Disney version because I think that the graphics, in this case, add a valuable dimension to the reading experience.I am glad that I read it but it will never be a re-read, unless I have a grand-child!
    • 5/5
      the well loved story, i like it now as much as i did way back then
    • 4/5
      I grew up watching the animated Disney version of this story and I thought the book would be exactly like the movie. They are very similar, however I feel the book has political messages that aren't really developed in the movie. Overall, I liked the book and I was entertained even though I saw the movie first.
    • 5/5
      It was such a whimsical vacation read. It was funny and crazy and strange and amazing. The world that Lewis Carroll created was so believable despite its obvious absurdity. The characters are interesting despite only brief encounters with some of them. The crazy poetry and songs were literary works of art in and of themselves. The best part of the book was the ability to lose yourself in Wonderland and allow your imagination to run along with Alice on this fantastic adventure. It was a light read with no deep thought required...perfect for summer vacation!
    • 3/5
      I'm loving my new Kindle. Not only is it fun to read books on it but Amazon has a bunch of free books, including Alice in Wonderland. I'm not sure that I've read "Alice" so I decided to give it a go.It is a really good book. The action starts on the very first page when Alice falls asleep and follows the rabbit down the hole. It is a fast paced book with all sorts of twists and turns.After I got into it I realized that I had read it or had it read to me a long time ago because I remember a lot of stuff that bothered me. How Alice grows and shrinks. She grows so much at one point that she has to put an arm out the window of a cottage and her foot up the chimney. I found that very very claustrophobic and disturbing as a kid and it still weirds me out.The other thing that bothered me as a kid was the nonsense spoke by the King and Queen and the judge and many of the other characters. That bothered me also. But hey, after years of listening to Hillary and Bill Clinton, George Bush, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck I am much better at dealing with nonsensical language than what I was as a child.What really struck me about the book is Alice progressing from being a victim where she just lets stuff happen to her to where at the last she is controlling events in Wonderland. She learns how to control just how big or small she needs to be by eating on the left or right side of the mushroom and she goes from taking everybody's crap to where she tells everybody off. I thought that is very cool.
    • 3/5
      Lovely colour illustrations
    • 5/5
      This classic tale of Alice In Wonderland is about a young girl with an imagination like no other. Her curiosity find's her trouble, and makes new friends for her. The story is a classic that has been around for decades.
    • 4/5
      This is the traditional story of Alice, who falls through the rabbit whole and ends up in Wonderland where she runs into all kinds of characters and adventures. Once we realize that Alice’s adventure is only a dream we see through her sister that Wonderland is actually in the Farm yard all around them if only they close their eyes and imagine.I’ve always enjoyed the story of Alice in Wonderland with all the unexpected characters. It doesn’t matter what version of the book is read, the book is a celebration of a child’s imagination.I would use this book to introduce creative writing in my English class with 3rd or 4th graders. This story can also be used in Science to discuss the human body and how it grows.
    • 5/5
      Swift-moving, extremely funny, and pretty much unique (aside from the second one). Gleefully absurd, always inches away from flying off the handle, which it would do if the handle didn't fly off first.
    • 5/5
      The classic fantasy story, with wonderful pen and ink drawings by Sir John Tenniel. This is THE reading experience I remember from when I was 10.
    • 4/5
      I think this book is the epitome of English eccentricity, which is why I loved it. There are several stories around the author, one that he was an epileptic, and that the falling down the hole was a description of one of his seizures, another one which my sister insists on was that he was a drug addict, which sort of taints my view of this as a children's book. I prefer to think he was a brilliant man with a vivid imagination, why is that so hard for people to believe? It's the perfect book to read to a child to spark their own imagination and give them a love of books and reading.
    • 5/5
      As a child, I read the stories of Alice in Wonderland (and, later, Through the Looking Glass) with a sense of wonder and amusement. Alice shows that it is possible to engage with a world which makes no sense on her own terms; she is not overwrought at her lack of understanding of the improbable and bizarre happenings around her. She brings reason to bear in narrow, specific cases (such as when arguing with the Red Queen), but is not paralysed by the irrationality of general occurrence. In this, she is like all children - dealing with reality not by knowing, but by exploring and engaging. This sense of innocent inquiry creates great sympathy in the younger reader.As an adult (older, grizzled and perhaps wiser), re-reading these stories once again provokes wonder and amusement - but this time, the wonder is at the ingenuity of the author and the amusement is if anything greater. This shift in reaction is because, as an adult, I know a few things: I know that it is impossible (in general life!) for soldiers to be playing cards, for Cheshire cats to disappear from the tail and for children to shrink and grow at the slightest provocation. Knowing this increases my admiration for Lewis Carroll, as he has constructed a world where the impossible occurs, but not without its own logic.While there is nonsense, there is structure - and the impossibilities have the common feature that they are all things which might occur to an imaginative young child while daydreaming. Thus they are not simply random (which would be nowhere near so satisfying to read), they are linked and interlocked to form a thoroughly pleasing structure. The underlying structure of the poem Jabberwocky has been analysed at length in [Hoftstadter], which elicits further wonder at the interlinked meanings and senses in the work. The amusement, of course, comes from understanding more of the jokes!
    • 4/5
      Silly but interesting.
    • 4/5
      Alice is always interesting. The Jackson illustrations are not the classic Tenniel,. but good of their kind.
    • 5/5
      The classical book by Lewis Carrol of Alice in Wonderland has both stories of Alice in Wonderland, from the classic disney one to the modern one. This book is appropriate for all ages. There are two books of Alice in Wonderland one is "Alice in Wonderland" and the other one is "Through the looking glass" both books are about Alice's adventure in wonderland.
    • 4/5
      The genre of this story is classics.I know this story but I haven't read this story ever.So I enjoyed reading this story.Alice falls down a hole and go to The Wonderland. There are lots of unique character,for example the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter and so on.The character of this book is very unique and I like them.This is very interesting story for me.
    • 3/5
      I didn't much enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland while I read it (except for the court scene with the King's ridiculous directives; TV shows like Boston Legal are straight out of here!). I especially disliked that Carroll painted himself into corners numerous times and only got out by pulling a new topic out of thin air. And the ending’s device is a frustrating cop-out.Yet, afterward, the story is growing on me. I’m glad to have finally experienced the origins of so many cultural references: the rabbit hole; “Drink Me”/”Eat Me”; the Mad Hatter; the Queen and Knave of Hearts; the rhymes. I suppose, being as logical a thinker as Alice, that I reacted to Wonderland exactly as she did: thinking it was curious, confusing, and frustratingly nonsensical. So, actually, Carroll did an excellent job of putting me there!The book absolutely lends itself to being read aloud -- and with much drama. I think an adult reader would get very much more by delving into an annotated edition.
    • 3/5
      This book was really... random. Some parts were really boring.Personally, I like the mad tea party the best.
    • 4/5
      Written as if the writer is on an acid trip, this book is wonderful and frightening at the same time. Rereading it as an adult has made me realize why I was so scared as a child. Alice, The White Rabbit, The Red Queen, The Mad Hatter....all these characters come to life in great detail and description. I would recomend this to anyone who has seen the many movies made. It's strange, wonderful and fun all in one.
    • 3/5
      I recently read this aloud to my child. Oh how I wanted to love it! It is iconic but the language and some of the plot was just too strange for us. We did giggle over the tea party and the croquet game.
    • 5/5
      This classic children's book is a timeless tale that captures children's imagination. This book can be used to introduce upper elementary students to math concepts such as graphing and beginning geometry. Using the characters in the book which are depicted as a deck of cards, children can explore laws of probability using a standard deck of playing cards.
    • 5/5
      This story tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world.She met lots of strange crature,and taught them lots of interesting things.But shi also learned some things from these people.Maybe you feel that it just belongs to fairy tale,and for children only.However,as a part of young people,i think this story is excellent.I gained much imagination from it,i found the way of making our lives become more meaningful.As a result,you won't miss it if you are the person who love the life.
    • 5/5
      This has to be the most intricate read and imaginatively inspiring books that I have ever come across.There is so much action occurring during Alice's time through the rabbit whole that explaining it would never be as satisfying as reading it. Each character occupies only small sections of the book but they are so memorable, so fascinating and different that one can not forget who they are, their story, and where they've come from.Alice herself is very smart for her age (9 I do believe?) and questions every question that a character throws at her. She does not fuss over small matters but instead opts through out the book to accept the differences.Carroll's characters make a lot of good points, their words have different meanings to it making the reader rethink about what they've just read. I nodded my head many times. Carroll is one for play on words and thinking outside the box about words, letters, and much much more.Through The Looking Glass may have been even more elaborate with Alice's encounter with the White Queen and her journey through an imaginary chess board to reach the status of Queen.There is so much more significant moments in the book that I want to comment on but it may just become an entire essay.This is a classic, the classic I've heard so much about and so glad I spent the time to read!