Alice'S Adventures in Wonderland

Bought for myself as I loved thus story as a child. beautiful little commemorative edition of a children's classic story.Beautiful illustrations and text.Platinum edging to the book .Lovely 4 pages at the back giving some brief information about Queen Elizabeth II and her rein.Excellent quality, well packaged. A lovely gift or personal keepsake for anyone who loves the original story with the added extra of information about the Queens Jubilee

This is not a review of the book's literary merit, just the quality of the particular edition.Quite a few positives on offer here, especially considering the price.The binding is sewn, hooray! This isn’t one of those glued paperbacks masking as a hardback. The book is a reader-friendly size, compact, and the font is easily readable with decent line spacing and wide enough margins from the edge. The paper is cream-coloured but unfortunately a bit see-through (probably my only qualm).The design of the book is very simple and visually pleasing – it shows the publishing company deals with art. The dustjacket managed to highlight Tove Jansson’s artwork instead of stealing the show, and the light green paper the book is bound in creates a perfect contrast with the bright orange endpapers.The entire book is generously illustrated with 11 colour illustration, 3 full-page black and white illustrations, and numerous smaller black and white illustrations on nearly every page. An absolute delight for both the fans of book illustration as such, as well as fans of Tove Jansson’s art in particular. Otherwise, it’s Lewis Carroll’s fans, collectors of beautiful books, and (obviously) children who’re in for a treat with this publication.Given the friendly price, there’s not much reason to hesitate whether to add this one to the personal library as the quality is unusually decent for today’s standards. And the illustrations alone are probably worth it.Reviewing the edition published by Tate Publishing in 2011, illustrated by Tove Jansson, ISBN: 978 1 85437 957 3, priced £9.39 at the time.

I am a massive Alice In Wonderland fan, I love the Disney film and I collect anything I can that is Alice related.I read this book back when I was a kid and decided it was time to re-read it and I am so glad I did, it was just as enjoyable to read the second time around. In fact once I got going I finished this book in two days.It is full of fun and nonsense, there will be no need to sit here and try and explain or analyze the greater meaning of this book or the author's motives as it is just plain fun with no need to really think about what your reading. I have read reviews on this book and I have found that to many people try to delve into the story and analyze it, trying to explain the meanings or try and explain why things are written the way they are but by doing this they take away the fun and nonsense of the story and don't enjoy the silliness of the story.Alice falls down a rabbit hole, after chasing the white rabbit and comes across a wonderful land of silliness and nonsense. Whilst down there she comes across characters such as the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, The Hatter and the Hare, The Mock Turtle and a Gryphon and lets not forget the King and Queen of Hearts. She battles between being to small or to big and questions if she is still the same person.It is certainly a fun book to read and I very much enjoyed it. My favorite character (apart from Alice) is definitely the Cheshire Cat. He is completely mad and he's the only character in the book who actually tries angering the Queen.There are quite a few characters in the book you come across that actually aren't in the Disney film. This is why the book is so good, it's a different story to the film really. You do come across some of the missing characters in the next book - Through The Looking glass.If you love Disney and Alice In wonderland then you will certainly enjoy this book.

Lovely jubilee cover of the book, the pages have jubilee decoration too. The book is palm sized which I hadn’t expected but it is a lovely keepsake for the jubilee

This is amazing, I am so grateful that people are still publishing this.If you just want to read Alice, you have to get a copy with the original illustrations, but for the Carolians amongst us, this is an essential addition to any collection.