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Alice Through the Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll and Tony Ross (view source)
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I can't say I was completely enamoured of Ross's artwork. Alice seems less distinguished just by having a darker blue dress than usual, but her scraggly hair and dodgy leggings don't help. The Jabberwocky (yes, that poem's in this book, alongside a couple of other famous ones, too) is noticeably less scary than the Tenniel engraving, and on the whole the mood is too modern and rough-and-tumble to have quite the classic nature the text deserves. The sheep doing her knitting could be any animal if her feet were hidden.
So the book isn't perfect, but I didn't absolutely object to the design work underdoneundergone, and I do think that Carroll, even with this superior work, needs a fillup to be completely on ball with the modern youngster. Ross did his editing in the early 1990s or before, but it stands the test of time. It is a fillup, and while copious similar editions will arrive over the next five years, for the friendly approach of this volume I would declare it already superior to many.
I must thank the publishers for my review copy.