A present day Alice in Wonderland where-in Dorthea is the Mad Hatter
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I could not put this book down. Mother-of-triplets Ermel seemed to have passed a dominant gene for ruthlessness on into 2 out of her 3 daughters. and it went on to her granddaughter Veronica. I wanted better for Ermel, since nobody could ever show her up. The war between the haves and the have-nots is painted in bold strokes in this book. It was captivating to see how Princess Never Was created her own empire by breaking every rule and surviving on spite and hatred. The romance between Sarah and Mack was a little much, but the friendship seemed real enough. All of the scheming and planning on Dorthea's part went from empowerment to insanity. It seemed to fall apart at the end. I caught a few typos here and there. I'd recommend it.
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An amazing adaptation of Lewis Carroll's work. It has such a surreal and dreamlike progression, it seems to float through a stream of consciousness. Definitely one of my favorite Disney films. (Even more Surreal at times  then Dumbo's Pink Elephants and Pooh's Hephalumps and Woozils)"  Top-notch voice characterizations from  Richard Haydn(Caterpillar), Ed  Wynn(Madd-Hatter), Jerry Colonna(MarchHare), Bill Thompson(White  Rabbit/Dodo), JPat OMalley(Tweedles, Walrus&Carpenter) and Sterling  Holloway(Cheshire Cat.
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As with the other  "Alice"books in this series  the bookworm is imaginative and has  excellent coloured illustrations so suitable for young readers  (and  also for reading  to young children.) with just the right amount of words  and pictures to keep them interested
The story gives a new and modern slant to the original class Alice in  Wonderland story
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This is a reasonable, hardcover box-set of Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice" books.  It makes a great gift for Alice lovers of any age or for introducing a young reader to Carroll's imaginative, delightful, and thought-provoking children's stories.

What makes this edition better than the average copy of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" is that it features the celebrated, rarely-seen illustrations originally penned by Meryn Peake for a 1940's printing of the "Alice" books.

Mervyn Peake is remembered as the author of the "Gormenghast" fantasy novels, as well as for his fine illustriations of classics like the "Alice" books and "Treasure Island."  In my opinion, his illustrations are more unique, artistic, and magical than John Tenniel's drawings for the first editions of Lewis Carroll's works, with which we are all more familiar.

If you a looking to purchase a copy of "Alice" to put on your bookshelf, I definitely recommend this one.
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Were all a little mad here in Wonderland is amazing. Alex in Wonderland is nothing like I thought it would be. I thought I would be like Alice in Wonderland, but it was so much more. Politics, lies, betrayals, drugs, love, lust, women, men, and secrets beyond belief. Alex has been down on her luck she has a dream of becoming more, but just when she least expects it a man comes into her life to help lift her up. However she doesn't understand what is really going on, nor does she think she wants to. Did she fall down the rabbit hole? You bet your sweet butt she did, but in such an awe inspiring way. Matt Hadder has a great life growing up he had a loving mother, and a father who came to take him in and show him the ropes. He's a hard a@@ and doesn't take crap from anyone. He runs Wonderland like a military base and his no nonsense life has made him into who he is today. When he meets Alex all gloves have come off and he will do what ever he can to make sure she's safe. Find out what Wonderland is really about and if Alex found the rabbit.
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I loved reading this book. Although not as wonderful as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it was a fun read. I'd recommend it to any one of any age.
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I love Iassen Ghiuselev's artwork! I bought the "Alice in Wonderland" illustrated by him a couple of years ago and really found his perspective on this classic amazing! So I had to have this calendar which had more images of Alice and her companions in Wonderland. I find his style and way of looking at the story fresh and entrancing.
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As Steampunk it is a great re-telling of Alice in Wonderland. Please note this is not for children. It does have lots of sex. Set in Victorian America. It was an easy read but could have been developed more.
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Lewis Carroll is a great author for kids and he represents a completely new phase in children's literature. Children are children and they only have grown-up age in front of them as a limited world and a perspective, the latter of which they may change when they are grown up by remembering what childhood was for them and the tales they entertained when they were children in order to tell them to a new generation of children. Lewis Carroll leads Alice into a world where everyday objects and animals, but also strange objects and animals, mix. Everything is right and wrong at the same time. Too small or too big. Everything speaks and tells stories or sings songs that remind Alice of songs she knows but that come out strange and distorted. This whole world of wonderland is a suddenly animated pack of cards in a doll's house and doll's garden. But at the same time Lewis Carroll invests the fears and the fantasms of the child into this world. We then can have and see a father figure and a mother figure that loom high in this world and represent a completely aborted sense of justice. Alice, the child, becomes the one who puts things together and back to straightness by just dreaming this disrupted world awake. She only nostalgically remembers the fascination that was hers and the strangeness that was that world's. Waking up brings her back to normality and clears this wonderland of the menaces it contained. Lewis Carroll is a genius when he thus depicts a world of fear and frustration and shows how this world can become marvellous in real life because it is the antipodes of everyday regular society.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite animated films. Some great characters in this one, the smoking caterpillar, chesire cat, the queen of hearts, the mad hatter, and of course that busy White Rabbit. Alice in Wonderland is such a sweet, sensitive and quite risque film, clearly the caterpillar isn't smoking incense but this film is classic, I love it so much. I can't wait til my nephew starts watching this film. Other Disney films I enjoy include: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and The Lady and the Tramp. I highly recommend Alice in Wonderland, could this movie be any better? I think not.
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Alice in Wonderland, 1985 film

This is based on the 19th century story by Lewis Carroll. It begins at a large house. Little Alice helps her mother set the table for tea, then goes outside. When will she grow up? A White Rabbit appears and runs into a cave. Alice follows and falls! She opens doors and enters an empty room. She tastes a bottle and shrinks! Then she eats a cake and grows. Her tears run like rain. Strange creatures follow in the stream. Alice wanders, the White Rabbit asks her to get his fan and gloves; she enters a small house. A bottle makes her grow again! Some cakes are thrown through the window, she changes to her previous size. She sees a caterpillar on a mushroom who is smoking a pipe. Then he disappears! Alice enters a house. Two women act strange.

This world is not a paradise. Alice runs out with the baby, who turns into a pig! She asks the Cheshire Cat for directions home. Then he disappears. Alice finds the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and a Dormouse. After this she continues her journey. Alice sings to a fawn. She enters a door and finds a garden. The people walk down the stairs, the King and Queen arrive. The Queen is excitable. Can Alice play croquet? The Queen always wins! The Cheshire Cat reappears. Grovel on the gravel says the Queen to the Duchess. Next she finds a Gryphon, then a Mock Turtle. Nothing he says makes sense. There is a dance on the grass. Then the trial begins. The witnesses testify. [Is this funny? Satirical?] Suddenly Alice grows up to free the Knave. Off with her head! Alice runs away, then falls asleep.

When she awakes she is back at home. But she is on the other side of the mirror! She finds the book Jabberwocky and reads it. There is thunder and lightning, and a monster lizard appears in her home! To Be Continued. Then the credits roll to list the characters and the players in this movie. Part Two lists the actors and their characters. The story resumes with that scary monster, who just disappears. The chess pieces are alive! The Owl explains life behind the Looking Glass. Flowers talk to Alice. She meets the Red Queen. How can she get home? She boards a train to travel. When it stops she gets off. She meets Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Next the Walrus and the Carpenter. After she meets the White Queen she turns into a sheep. A giant vulture chases Alice.

Next she meets Humpty Dumpty; they talk. The Jabberwocky appears to chase Alice! She escapes. She meets the White King. The Lion and the Unicorn fight for the crown. Can Alice cut the cake? There is a drumming noise, two knights approach to do battle. The White Knight leads Alice away towards home. She gets a crown and scepter! The Red and White Queens show up and talk to Alice. Alice goes to the house with her name on it. It has a giant hall with a banquet table. The characters encountered earlier show up. But Alice just wants to go home. There is a shocking surprise when she opens a present! Can the White Knight save Alice? Alice passes through the Looking Glass and returns home. Where have you been? She is grown up now and can join the adults for tea. The story ends and the credits roll.

I suspect some of these characters were parodies of people in mid-nineteenth century England; they are not relevant today. I never read these stories as a child and never will as an adult. Is this a movie for children or adults?
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Alyss Heart, princess of Wonderland and heir to the throne, must flee through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous aunt Redd who has seized the kingdom. She finds herself in Victorian London. When she is befriended by an author, she tells him her story and hopes that he'll tell the truth so that someone will find her and bring her home. But he gets the story all wrong, even spelling her name incorrectly. but Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan has been searching for Alyss, and when she is twenty, he brings her back to take back her kingdom.

I liked this book a lot. It's obviously a play off of Alice in Wonderland and it had a great plot. I liked the way that Beddor made Alyss into a princess from Wonderland who gets lost in England and then returns to her home. There was great magic in this book, as well as wonderful characters. Especially Aunt Redd, the evil queen of hearts. She has this mad air about her that Beddor captured very well. Though the plot device was very familiar (banished princess must take back her queendom), I still really loved it. The Looking Glass Wars kept me reading, and I finished it in a few short hours. There is a sequel too, called Seeing Redd.

*You can read all of my reviews at my book review blog, novareviews.blogspot.com*
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Kate traveled to her aunt's estate in Scotland expecting a secluded, peaceful, rustic retreat. What awaited her, however, was a fantasy of intrigue and danger of an otherworldly nature  with Hornbeams, Scats, Amazons, Eavesdroppers, and mysterious artifacts  all with an unwilling Scotsman by her side.

Trials of Hallion starts out a little bit like a modern-day Alice in Wonderland, where an ordinary New Yorker finds herself in an extraordinary place called Hallion populated with bizarre human-like entities and living Tarot cards. My absolute favorite characters were a bedraggled lion named Ryyd, whose secret I cannot tell without spoiling, and the Eavesdroppers.

We've been watching the TV series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, so it's kind of a cool thing to merge the mental images of one with the other while I'm reading.

But for me, this really came into its own when Kate's cell phone rang with a telephone call from beyond the living. With that call I was transported to Hallion with Kate, experiencing the emotions of both Kate and her otherworldly caller.

I did struggle with the multitude of strange names, which is unusual for me as I am well-versed in strange names.

The Tarot card theme was a unique treat!

Favorite quote: "The only antidote is love. Evil hates love."

Second favorite: "Don't be scared. The bogey man doesn't live here."

 Sharon Delarose
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The White Rabbit.  The Mad Hatter.  The Queen of Hearts.  The Cheshire Cat.  The Caterpillar.  These enigmatic figures may seem distant in Wonderland, but they are in fact aspects of our daily lives.  Despite its varied fantastical elements, no other book has felt so true to real life.

Carroll's masterpiece shows off his penchance for wit, wisdom, satire, and self-awareness.  Alice is on a journey of discovery--who she is and what the world consists of.  Her journey intersects with mine--rereading this book feels like coming home.  It is familiar, warm, and comforting.

If you know Alice only through Disney, you are denying yourself a great joy.  Read this book.
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Is anyone gonna point out that this is the Cheshire Cat From Alice In Wonderland? Not an Owl??? C'mon people!
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Alyssa Gardners family is cursed. Her great grandmother was the original Alice that went down into Wonderland and ever since then all of the women in the family have been cursed with madness. As her mothers mental stability worsens and more extreme measures are on the horizon to control her affliction, Alyssa takes matters into her own hands and heads back to Wonderland to try and undo her familys past mistakes.

This is a wonderfully scary retelling/new perspective on the Alice in Wonderland Adventures by Lewis Carroll. I love how the author is able to incorporate all of the curse elements and how they ties in so well with the past story. I did find myself skimming through some of the parts but overall greatly enjoyed the book as a whole.

I would recommend this to people that love Alice in Wonderland and wanted a darker side to the story.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a fun and pleasant reading. The book allows the reader to enter into Alice's mind and travel along with her through the worderful and mysterious Wonderland. Alice is a curious and questioning little girl traversing a land where nonsense is the common-sense, where right is wrong and where wrong is not always right (but can be sometimes!). This causes a surprise in every page you turn. The characters Alice meets usually produce the most unexpected replies which always leave Alice and the reader in a troubled state-of-mind.  However amazing it can be, we are sometimes a little puzzled by noticing there is some logic in the nonsense world of Wonderland and I personally think this is the true beauty of the book. Moreover, all this is presented by the most unusual characters in a rich text, often mixing prose and verse and sometimes toying with typography in a e. e. cummings-like nature, which makes the book quite unique.