Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A stunning new edition of Lewis Carroll's classic children's tale. 'Curiouser and curiouser!'

Reimagined by the illustrations of Kate Greenaway Medal winner Grahame Baker-Smith, this stunning new edition of a childhood favorite will transport a whole new generation of readers down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland.

Conjured one 'golden afternoon' in 1867, the story of Alice has charmed readers for more than 150 years. Now readers can rediscover a host of favorite characters, from the despotic Queen of Hearts to the riddling Cheshire Cat, in a world where nothing is quite as it seems.

Review Quotes

"Stunning full-bleed digital illustrations depict the story of water and its cycles...Lovely and accessible." --School Library Journalon The Rhythm of the Rain

"Baker-Smith's gilded images of the father's elaborate winged contraptions and placid spreads of sky and clouds offer hope." --Publishers Weekly on FArTHER
"Baker-Smith's digitally created illustrations draw on painterly techniques and photography to create a fantastically touched reality. ... [D]reamy art will draw visually attuned youngsters." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books on FArTHER

"Strains of melancholy color this extraordinarily lovely meditation on longing. ... Elemental and sophisticated at once." --ForeWord Reviews on FArTHER

" [Baker-Smith's] figures, hovering in that magical middle ground between fantasy and realism, possess idiosyncratic stylistic flourishes that make for instant appeal. Realistically textured and timeless clothing grounds his lushly fantastical environments, giving his images an evocative and even haunting quality. Many children will be visually captivated and want to pass their fingers again and again over the intricate surfaces of the mechanical wings the father invents. ... Beautiful and resonant..." --Booklist Online on FArTHER

About the Author

Grahame Baker-Smith is a self-taught award-winning illustrator from Oxford who completed his training at Berkshire School of Art. He has worked in illustration for twenty years and in 2011 won the Greenaway Medal for his inspiring tale of fatherhood, Farther. He has illustrated numerous other picture books for Templar, including The Rhythm of the Rain which won the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Greenaway shortlisted Leon and the Place Between.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, logician and mathematician. Born in 1832, he is best known for the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as well as his nonsense poems. The character of Alice was in fact based on a real child, Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where Carroll taught mathematics. Many of the adventures in Wonderland are thought to be based on a picnic with Alice and her two sisters.