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Publisher:
Telos Publishing Ltd |
Release
Date: August 2004 |
ISBN:
1903889766 |
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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Genre:
Juvenile Fantasy |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewer
Notes: Can also be bought directly from Telos Publishing
Ltd, 61 Elgar Avenue, Tolworth, Surrey KT5 9JP UK. Website:
http://www.telos.co.uk |
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Alice’s Journey Beyond The Moon
By R J Carter
Everybody
knows about Wonderland and the Looking Glass, but what other strange
and wonderful lands might Alice also visit? Making use of the body
of writing Lewis Carroll bequeathed to the world, R. J. Carter imagines
how Alice might get to the moon, and what she might find once there.
This is a dish made using existing
ingredients, and perhaps it is not surprising (nor disappointing)
to find that the characters in the story are variations on the ones
Carroll uses in his own Alice stories. Nor that they get up to similar
things, complete with nonsense rhymes derived from Victorian “improving”
verses and numerous word plays. Of course it isn’t anything
like the classics that we know and love so much, but to children
wanting to hear more of Alice’s adventures, and any adults
who also do, this little book is entertaining and reasonably erudite.
Replete with notes linking parts of the story to things from Carroll’s
journals, and illustrated throughout (of course) by a contemporary
illustrator, this makes an ideal gift for lovers of Alice or any
age.
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