Alice — Tea?
“I was inside the lounge of the St. Tudno Hotel. At the table were Alice, the March Hare, the Hatter, the Dormouse and the Queen of Hearts.” — C. M. Rubin With apologies to Lewis Carroll… It was Friday, May 4, 2012. I fell down a rabbit hole in search of a tea party for 1,000 children and a world record jam tart eating attempt. Down down down I went… until suddenly — thump! I was inside the...
Alice
Alice Pleasance Liddell, Summer 1858 Courtesy of © National Portrait Gallery, London. In the year 2143, will we be able to say Harry Potter lives, Harry Potter is global, or even that Harry Potter’s enduring legacy continues to inspire all age groups? None of us really know for sure what will happen to Harry Potter between now and then. What you should know is that there is one book, which, 146 years after it was first...
How Will We Read? – The Book Given
The book given by Lewis Carroll to Alice Liddell for Christmas On November 26, 1864, Lewis Carroll gave my relative, Alice Pleasance Liddell, a book he had written for her. He called the book Alice’s Adventures Underground after considering titles such as Alice’s Golden House, Alice Among the Elves, Alice Among the Goblins, and Alice’s Doings In Wonderland. Carroll had spent over two years writing and...
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