Product Description

Curiouser and Curiouser...Fall down the rabbit-hole and let DeLoss McGraw take you on a tour of Wonderland.

In over a hundred dazzling watercolors, artist DeLoss McGraw unflinchingly captures the ethereal beauty and dreamlike qualities of Carroll's fantastic story. His visual trek through Wonderland is a deep poetic journey that transforms our view of the subterranean world and reveals Alice as we have never seen her before.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1806810 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

From Publishers Weekly
DeLoss McGraw's illustrations bring the magic of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to a younger audience, with abstract splashes of color that render the Caterpillar a bit less eerie and the Queen less terrifying than Sir John Tenniel's interpretation. One hallucinogenic image captures Alice awash in deep blue watercolor, her long legs rising in an ethereal haze as her head reaches the ceiling. A small green window and miniaturized chair accentuate her rapid growth.

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From School Library Journal
Gr 4-Up-McGraw provides a unique visual interpretation of Carroll's classic tale. As in Natasha Wing's Hippity Hop, Frog on Top (1994; o.p.) and Edward Lear's The New Vestments (1995; o.p., both S & S), his gouache illustrations are marked by bold, rich colors and a collage-style layout. His work suggests the influence of early 20th-century abstract, fantasy, and surrealist painters, as well as that of contemporary illustrator Brian Wildsmith. At times, the trip through Wonderland appears nightmarish. The images of Alice with the bottle of poison in front of her face and the executioner as a masked club card clutching an ax are particularly jarring. The story can be read on many levels. McGraw has chosen to portray the deeper, darker side of Alice's adventures. This is definitely a sophisticated and special interpretation that will appeal to a very limited, mature audience.

Heide Piehler, Shorewood Public Library, WI

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About the Author
Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University, but he is better known to the world as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-glass (1871), as well as The Hunting of the Snark (1876).