Alice, Is This Cool?
Apr30

Alice, Is This Cool?

  “Johnny Depp has made it cool to like Alice,” was Miss Alice Llandudno Nicol Thompson’s answer to my question — Why do children today still love Alice in Wonderland?  With Johnny Depp’s 3-D visual spectacle of a movie currently standing at a worldwide gross of $1,024,299,904, I suspect he made Alice in Wonderland very cool for a lot of Disney executives too. But what about serious Carroll fans? ...

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Alice
Dec05

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...

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How Will We Read? – The Book Given
Oct26

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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