I wish I could get through into looking-glass house,' Alice said. 'Let's pretend that the glass has gone soft and . . . Why, I do believe it has! It's turning into a kind of cloud!' A moment later Alice is inside the looking-glass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks. The chess pieces talk and argue with her, give orders and repeat poems . . . It is the strangest dream that anyone ever had . . .
A book about oceanic research, featuring the research ship Joide's Resolution, written in rhyme with beautiful illustrations. This nonfiction eBook was written for us by award-winning children's author Kevin Kurtz and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Alice Feagan. It is written for children and classrooms in grades 1 through 4.
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In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer.
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
The Story of Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and stodgy traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as they are (in Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster to stay in one place).
Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland (Little Nipper Giant)
This is for the scarce Alice in Wonderland Littler Nipper Giant Storybook Record Album, produced by RCA Victor in 1951 and catalog # Y-437. This includes the book and is complete with both 78 RPM records and tied in with the Walt Disney animated feature.
