alice's adventures in wonderland barnes and noble

I suppose every anthology needs those random bits at the end. And some instruction of how to play card games. It's silly and fun.Īll right, I skimmed through the stuff in the end because it included a lot of math. I did enjoy Carroll's poetry, though, overall. But the fairy children sometimes become real children, and I don't even know. The basic premise is the narrator going along on his normal life, but he falls into an 'eerie' state (akin to the place between being awake and dreaming) that he encounters fairy children. It was the Sylvie & Bruno books that took me the longest to get through, because I honestly had no idea what was going on at times. They're insane and brilliant all at once. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are exactly as I remembered the films. If you asked me to make up something as wildly insane as this, I wouldn't even come close. How am I supposed to explain all this? I swear Lewis Carroll was on drugs. We all know which one Russell Brand took. Red pill or the blue one, I know what I am taking. You gotta Wonder just who was it that really woke her up? Seeing every kooky thing first hand and were just as amazed, awed, and enthralled as her.

It was like Alice was there in Wonderland, and we as readers were there with her. Like the Goodreads sensation, JG Keely says a good children's book works for both adults and children and makes you think. It was abrupt like startling awake from a pleasant dream. It took me a while to figure out that every line, every word, every dialogue was a puzzle that you have to unravel yourself. There are many lessons, morals, and parables here, but you have to work at it and figure them out. Now, this is living up to the expectations. All the hype surrounding it well justified.

It was everything I thought it would be and more. Well worth the wait, didn't let down, and did not disappoint in any way. Now, this is a children's book in every way and more. After all the metaphors and symbolism regarding Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter in beaver hat, and going down the Rabbit holes, it was surreal reading the Original thing after all that but it wasn't surreal enough.

Alice's adventures in wonderland barnes and noble