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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