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  • After Alice by Gregory Maguire
    ...t contrasts the madness of Wonderland with the issues of those left behind in Victorian London. Definitely one for the adults rather than children, it's ...lice's departure? When Alice's friend Ada, mentioned briefly in ''Alice in Wonderland'' sets out to visit Alice, she arrives a minute too late. Tumbling down the
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  • The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
    |title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland |sort=Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel
    |title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ...anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and we've seen numerous anniversary editions.
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  • Busy Alice in Wonderland
    |title=Busy Alice in Wonderland Now I'm not a great fan of ''Alice in Wonderland'': I've never enjoyed fantasy and, as a child, there was something about th
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  • Splintered by A G Howard
    |summary=Alice in Wonderland update has some good world-building but flat characters and a plot which la ...oll to write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. When she's dragged into Wonderland herself, can she break the family curse?
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood) by Lewis Carroll
    |title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood) ...of Dame Vivienne Westwood. And even though I have [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|spoken befo
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  • Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics) by Jon Scieszka and Mary Blair
    |title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics) I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of the story of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 years old a couple of years back there
    3 KB (579 words) - 12:44, 21 August 2020
  • Alice Through the Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll and Tony Ross
    ...for the original ''Alice'', this one will be met with copious alternatives in the years to come, but won't be much bettered. ...nd welcomingly polite young girl in a fantasia land having the weirdest of adventures only to find it was a dream, and then lo and behold along comes another. T
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) and Salvador Dali
    |title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ...re and expensive edition of Lewis Carroll's Marmite classic gets revisited in this cherishable hardback – still it might not be to everyone's tastes wh
    5 KB (908 words) - 13:18, 6 April 2018
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    ...tour de force. This scary Alice in Wonderland style novella has surrealism in spades, a perfect ear, a wonderful central character, plenty of shivers, an ...unds, and so that's what Coraline does, just as Alice did before she found Wonderland.
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  • The Other Alice by Michelle Harrison
    ...rs the spooky, mind-boggling truth about the strangers who've just arrived in town. ...letely. His parents both happen to be working away, so Midge is left alone in the house, his head full of the vague warnings Alice has given him over rec
    3 KB (559 words) - 08:19, 25 April 2018
  • Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James
    ...y= Book characters that come to life, heartless villains and all the crazy adventures people have ever imagined – a race-along thrill of a story. ...acters wander into her bookshop at will, and before long she's joined them in their worlds, going to school with one, and enjoying (if that's the word!)
    3 KB (573 words) - 10:34, 29 July 2018
  • Hold On Tight, Stripy Horse! by Jim Helmore and Karen Wall
    ...nture around the magical world within a bric-a-brac shop. Think ''Alice In Wonderland'' and ''Mary Poppins'', but without being derivative. It's great fun. Recom Stripy Horse and his friends live in a bric-a-brac shop. One day, they discover that it's raining ''inside''. El
    3 KB (450 words) - 11:51, 20 September 2020
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne
    |title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) ...this did. It's a classic that, if you haven't before, you can polish off in definitely under two hours. It's something then that on this occasion I su
    4 KB (622 words) - 12:02, 17 April 2018
  • The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to the World of Beatrix Potter by Camilla Hallinan
    ...he time that I discovered him when my daughter fell in love with him and - in her turn - read them to her own children thirty years later. He's well pas ...illustrations, but I was surprised to find that I became deeply engrossed in the content.
    3 KB (564 words) - 16:20, 25 March 2018
  • Return to Wonderland by Various Authors
    |title=Return to Wonderland ...with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?
    7 KB (1,279 words) - 14:37, 29 April 2019
  • The Magic Faraway Tree (Gift Edition) (Magic Faraway Tree 2) by Enid Blyton
    |summary=More of the same for this first sequel in the series – which is the problem. ...al episodes in the adventures of three children and their friends who live in a huge tree that transports you to whichever different world is hovering ab
    3 KB (520 words) - 08:37, 25 April 2018
  • The Enchanted Wood (Gift Edition) (The Magic Faraway Tree) by Enid Blyton
    ...old as those classics and relies too much on returning to homely normality in between its episodes of fantasy. ...odland nearby is enchanted – they have already noticed a slight difference in the trees, and have a suspicion they talk to each other. And it's not long
    5 KB (790 words) - 08:38, 25 April 2018
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass by Emma Chichester Clark
    ...with modern illustrations, this is a happier book than the dark original, in our minds. ...hild, I found the Alice stories weird and a bit dark. Helena Bonham Carter in book form, perhaps. Not for everyone, no matter how many times the word ''C
    4 KB (700 words) - 14:53, 23 April 2018
  • Un-Lun-Dun by China Mieville
    ...ambitious plans to move into Zanna and Deeba's own city. In world that is in desperate need of a hero, can two girls stop the Smog with the help of a ha ...versary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]] are obvious. However, what Un Lun Dun really reminds me of is [[The Wizar
    6 KB (972 words) - 14:24, 14 May 2018
  • March 2015 Newsletter
    ...ws from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. ...n but who, in person, was kind and funny and twinkly, without a nasty bone in his body. We are all a little bit less without him.
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  • Dork Diaries: Once Upon a Dork (Book 8) by Rachel Renee Russell
    ...t something is dodgeball, which bangs her on the head so much she wakes up in a sheer fantasy world, where her BFFs are Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood, t ...ill writing everything up? It's only at that stage you realise the 'Once' in the title refers to the one-day only nature of the story as much as it does
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  • Lulu and the Chocolate Wedding by Posy Simmonds
    ...ould be chocolate. Because who doesn't love chocolate? Lulu certainly does in this story. ...l world with dreamy fantasies that have a touch of [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] to them.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Paul Stewart And Chris Riddell
    ...matter that some younger readers won't get all the allusions and parodies in the 'Muddle Earth' series?''' ...t your ideas from?' Chris gets his best ideas in the shower. Paul gets his in the bath. It must be something to do with the water.
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  • The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders
    ...ough such a place becomes Emily's safe haven after the death of her sister in this short yet bitter-sweet novel. ...Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'', the [[J K Rowling's Harry Potter Books in Chronological Order|Harry Potter series]] and [[http://www.thebookbag.co.uk
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  • The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M Valente
    ...aring along with people's shadows. Once again she must gather her courage in both hands and set off on a quest. ...n children grow a heart, and when at last the summons comes, she finds her adventures are far more complex than they were before.
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  • Costa Book Awards 2015
    ...be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her books. Mysteries lurk in the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characters, and the stra |title=A God in Ruins
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  • The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi
    |summary=In part one of this trilogy, we meet twelve-year-old Eva Nine, who has never s ...ver seen another human being and who has been brought up by a kindly robot in an underground home. Right from the very first pages we suspect things are
    5 KB (852 words) - 16:11, 11 March 2018
  • Lady Friday (The Keys to the Kingdom) by Garth Nix
    ...trength in a wonderfully tense book. Great world-building that doesn't get in the way of pace and tension. Recommended for all young fans of fantasy. ...maxima culpa, because these books are big - and by big I mean '''big''' - in the playground. Everybody knows them. My older son is on to teen and adult
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  • Newest Short Stories Reviews
    ...t. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. ...100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''
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