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by Maria Popova
Down the rabbit hole in enchanting reimaginings.
On July 4, 1862, English mathematician and logician Charles Dodgson boarded a small boat with a few friends. Among them was a little girl named Alice Liddell. To entertain her and her sisters as they floated down the river between Oxford and Godstow, Dodgson fancied a whimsical story, which hed come to publish three years later under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland went on to become one of the most beloved childrens books of all time, and my all-time favorite.
In the century and a half since Sir John Tenniels original illustrations, the Carroll classic has sprouted everything from a pop-up book adaptation to a witty cookbook to a quantum physics allegory, and hundreds of artists around the world have reimagined it with remarkable creative vision. After my recent highlights of the best illustrations for Tolkiens The Hobbit, here come the loveliest visual interpretations of the timeless book.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/07/best-illustrations-alice-in-wonderland/
RALPH STEADMAN (1973)
LEONARD WEISGARD (1949)
JOHN VERNON LORD (2011)
pop-up book artist and paper engineer Robert Sabuda
mia
(8,361 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)The card flurry page in particular.
There's also a Wizard of Oz one.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)When I was very young, maybe 6 or 7, my mother would read to us when we got home from school. She read all the classics, most were old books, many from her childhood. She read the "Alice" books, Hans Christian Anderson, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Heidi and so many more. She would read a few chapters each day. I will never forget the John Tenniel illustrations, what a wonder they were to me.
Another thing she did was make us go to library as soon as summer vacation started. We had to check out the maximum number of books allowed (6) and we kept them for 2 weeks and we were expected to read them all. She raised six kids who all loved to read.
I am re-reading an old J. Frank Dobie book right, The Longhorns. Never tire of his stories. Tom Lea did the illustrations. You will remember "Murder" if you read this book.
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)Not sure who did them:
And was inspiration for a Batman Halloween Graphic Novel special...
TlalocW
The first one is very familiar. I'm not sure, but it may be by Sir John Tenniel.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)you're doing it wrong.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)snot
(10,530 posts)it'd have been nice for them to be included.
G_j
(40,367 posts)but I added them to the post.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Every one of them. I couldn't choose a favorite.
longship
(40,416 posts)...is The Annotated Alice which contains Lewis Carroll's original text along with Martin Gardner's annotations and commentary. The premium copy also has a similar treatment of "Alice Through the Looking Glass" in the same volume.
Gardner is, as always, on target and provocative.
And yes, if one obtains an early enough copy, the graphics are wonderful.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty
Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle.
And Gary Cooper as the White Knight.
The costumes were just plain WEIRD and so was the animation.