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The Complete Alice: V&A Collector's Edition
The Complete Alice: V&A Collector's Edition
Nov 17, 2024 11:30 PM

Author:Lewis Carroll,Elisabeth Murray

The Complete Alice: V&A Collector's Edition

With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book, this beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum.

Featuring an exclusive foreword by Elisabeth Murray, an Assistant Curator in the Fashion, Textiles and Furniture Department at the V&A.

You never know where you'll find yourself in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll!

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute . . .

Reviews

Duckling, written in a clear, poetic voice reminiscent of Wilde's Happy Prince, is at times almost painfully affecting...but brimming over, too, with heart and courage

—— Imogen Russell Williams , Times Literary Supplement

[A] moving, poetic tale [that] celebrates an outsider's adventurous spirit in a world that's quick to judge

—— Eithne Farry , Sunday Express

For readers who are attracted to epic but not quite ready for the weightiness of Tolkien, this is a perfect entrée; for those who have loved or will love Pratchett, it’s simply a must read.

—— Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

The perfect starting place for young readers . . . seasoned Pratchett fans will just revel in his wit, his subversion of tropes and his sense of humanity.

—— Kirkus

A unique piece of high fantasy . . . Now very witty and politically aware in its revised version with the new ending

—— Vector

The story is inventive in its carefully worked-out central conceit, often very funny, and dotted with some genuinely scary bits.

—— Publishers Weekly

Mouth-watering attention to names and place names add greatly to the story's enjoyment factor.The story itself - part saga, legend and adventure - swings along at a fair old clatter. Terry Pratchett's writing is vivid and immediate . . . For young readers unaware of Pratchett's oeuvre, The Carpet People is a fine introduction

—— Junior Bookshelf

The concept is fascinating and is told with Pratchett's customary wit plus touches of cynicism. It's a winner

—— The School Librarian

I feel it’s a new dimension in imagination and the prose is beautiful. It is exciting and adventurous.

—— The Irish Times

Mouth-watering attention to names and place names... adding greatly to the story's enjoyment factor. The story itself - part saga, legend and adventure - swings along at a fair old clatter. Terry Pratchett's writing is vivid and immediate. He wastes no time. There is little padding. The swiftness of the storyline is everything.... For young readers unaware of Pratchett's oeuvre, The Carpet People is a fine introduction

—— The Junior Bookshelf

Wacky, weird stuff which should make you think twice about crossing the living room!

—— TV Hits Magazine

It's a winner

—— School Librarian

Catherine Doyle's delightful novel moves deftly from melancholy to "jolly holly", genial all the way

—— Financial Times

An instant Christmas classic

—— The Irish Times

Action-packed, full of imagination...uplifting

—— The Independent
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