Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) is best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in addition to its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was a mathematician, deacon, and photographer in addition to being a writer.
This year, that curious, hallucinating heroine Alice, friend of
Cheshire cats and untimely rabbits, is turning 150 years old And
what a perfect match, in tone and whimsy, found in Rifle Paper Co.
s Anna Bond. Vanity Fair
Publishers are having a creative field day with stunningly
beautiful new covers and lovely insides, too, in the case of Puffin
s whimsical Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Rifle
Paper Co. s Anna Bond. Entertainment Weekly
Chic The pretty face ofAnna Bond s Alice looks continually
astonished, and even in the scene where her neck grows freakishly
serpentine, the heroine remains comely. Elegant and unthreatening,
Ms. Bond s pictures abound with so many flowers and curling vines
that Wonderland seems a much nicer place than perhaps we
remembered. Wall Street Journal
150 years after Alice in Wonderland was published, Anna Bond, the
creative director of stationer Rifle Paper Co., draws a whole new
tea party in this deluxe hardcover edition. New York Magazine s The
Cut
In this beautiful, oversized, hardcover anniversary edition with
the complete, unabridged text readers will fall in love all over
again with the classic tale of the girl who fell down the rabbit
hole.Illustrator Anna Bond, of gift and stationery brand Rifle
Paper Co., applies her stylish, whimsical touch and distinctive
color palette to Alice and her friends, from the inviting jacket
and the case-cover art beneath it to the original endpapers and the
superb full-color interior illustrations, large and small. Shelf
Awareness
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll s beloved
classic, Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. Commemorate the occasion
with a deluxe hardcover edition of the tale from Puffin Books,
available Oct. 27. The new book is re-illustrated with vibrant,
whimsical designs by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co., for a
one-of-a-kind look at Alice s imaginative journey. American
Profile"
"This year, that curious, hallucinating heroine Alice, friend of
Cheshire cats and untimely rabbits, is turning 150 years old...And
what a perfect match, in tone and whimsy, found in Rifle Paper
Co.'s Anna Bond."--Vanity Fair "Publishers are having a creative
field day with stunningly beautiful new covers--and lovely insides,
too, in the case of Puffin's whimsical Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, illustrated by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna
Bond."--Entertainment Weekly "Chic...The pretty face of Anna Bond's
Alice looks continually astonished, and even in the scene where her
neck grows freakishly serpentine, the heroine remains comely.
Elegant and unthreatening, Ms. Bond's pictures abound with so many
flowers and curling vines that Wonderland seems a much nicer place
than perhaps we remembered."--Wall Street Journal "150 years after
Alice in Wonderland was published, Anna Bond, the creative director
of stationer Rifle Paper Co., draws a whole new tea party in this
deluxe hardcover edition."--New York Magazine's The Cut "In this
beautiful, oversized, hardcover anniversary edition--with the
complete, unabridged text--readers will fall in love all over again
with the classic tale of the girl who fell down the rabbit hole.
Illustrator Anna Bond, of gift and stationery brand Rifle Paper
Co., applies her stylish, whimsical touch and distinctive color
palette to Alice and her friends, from the inviting jacket and the
case-cover art beneath it to the original endpapers and the superb
full-color interior illustrations, large and small." --Shelf
Awareness "This year marks the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's
beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Commemorate the
occasion with a deluxe hardcover edition of the tale from Puffin
Books, available Oct. 27. The new book is re-illustrated with
vibrant, whimsical designs by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co., for a
one-of-a-kind look at Alice's imaginative journey."--American
Profile
Gr 3 Up Hague, in his ``Afterword,'' gives a fine reason for tackling a book that has already been illustrated some 100 times: to ``reinterpret the classics for each new generation of children.'' But what does Hague bring to Alice that is fresh or contemporary in insight? Only a set of crowded images that seem too often to be seen through a dirty yellow filter. There's no denying the competency of his drawing. He does his anatomy homework, and his mock-Rackham trees are properly gnarled, but they lack the brooding mystery of the master's originals. The Queen is a fresh face with a red fright wig and jutting lower lip, almost a Dom DeLuise in drag. But Alice, although a real girl, looks too old for the part at times. Individually, Hague produces attractive characters that hover quite close to the descriptions Carroll provides or Dame Nature offers. Once again the trouble comes in the organization of these characters and architectural sets; they too frequently don't seem to fit. A heavy-handed use of black outline is one reason figures are isolated in space. Sometimes it's an odd juxtaposition of colors. And why does he put human hands on some of his animals and not on others? Although these odd bits of artistic shortcomings are in evidence, they do not override an attraction to aspects of Hague's illustrations, which will have broad appeal. Yet despite his expressed hope that children ``will want to read this wonderful story'' because of his pictures, it is more likely that they'll want to read it because of the profound imagination of the author and his ability to spin a yarn as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. Kenneth Marantz,u Art Education Department, Ohio State Univ . , Columbus
This year, that curious, hallucinating heroine Alice, friend of
Cheshire cats and untimely rabbits, is turning 150 years old And
what a perfect match, in tone and whimsy, found in Rifle
Paper Co. s Anna Bond. Vanity Fair
Publishers are having a creative field day with stunningly
beautiful new covers and lovely insides, too, in the
case of Puffin s whimsical Alice s Adventures in
Wonderland, illustrated by Rifle Paper Co. s Anna Bond.
Entertainment Weekly
Chic The pretty face ofAnna Bond s Alice looks continually
astonished, and even in the scene where her neck grows freakishly
serpentine, the heroine remains comely. Elegant and
unthreatening, Ms. Bond s pictures abound with so many flowers and
curling vines that Wonderland seems a much nicer place than perhaps
we remembered. Wall Street Journal
150 years after Alice in Wonderland was published, Anna
Bond, the creative director of stationer Rifle Paper Co., draws a
whole new tea party in this deluxe hardcover edition. New
York Magazine s The Cut
In this beautiful, oversized, hardcover anniversary edition
with the complete, unabridged text readers will fall in love all
over again with the classic tale of the girl who fell down the
rabbit hole.Illustrator Anna Bond, of gift and stationery brand
Rifle Paper Co., applies her stylish, whimsical touch and
distinctive color palette to Alice and her friends, from the
inviting jacket and the case-cover art beneath it to the original
endpapers and the superb full-color interior illustrations,
large and small. Shelf Awareness
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll s beloved
classic, Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. Commemorate the occasion
with a deluxe hardcover edition of the tale from Puffin Books,
available Oct. 27. The new book is re-illustrated with vibrant,
whimsical designs by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co., for a
one-of-a-kind look at Alice s imaginative journey. American
Profile"
"This year, that curious, hallucinating heroine Alice, friend of
Cheshire cats and untimely rabbits, is turning 150 years old...And
what a perfect match, in tone and whimsy, found in Rifle
Paper Co.'s Anna Bond."--Vanity Fair
"Publishers are having a creative field day with stunningly beautiful new covers--and lovely insides, too, in the case of Puffin's whimsical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond."--Entertainment Weekly "Chic...The pretty face of Anna Bond's Alice looks continually astonished, and even in the scene where her neck grows freakishly serpentine, the heroine remains comely. Elegant and unthreatening, Ms. Bond's pictures abound with so many flowers and curling vines that Wonderland seems a much nicer place than perhaps we remembered."--Wall Street Journal "150 years after Alice in Wonderland was published, Anna Bond, the creative director of stationer Rifle Paper Co., draws a whole new tea party in this deluxe hardcover edition."--New York Magazine's The Cut "In this beautiful, oversized, hardcover anniversary edition--with the complete, unabridged text--readers will fall in love all over again with the classic tale of the girl who fell down the rabbit hole. Illustrator Anna Bond, of gift and stationery brand Rifle Paper Co., applies her stylish, whimsical touch and distinctive color palette to Alice and her friends, from the inviting jacket and the case-cover art beneath it to the original endpapers and the superb full-color interior illustrations, large and small." --Shelf Awareness "This year marks the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Commemorate the occasion with a deluxe hardcover edition of the tale from Puffin Books, available Oct. 27. The new book is re-illustrated with vibrant, whimsical designs by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co., for a one-of-a-kind look at Alice's imaginative journey."--American Profile
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