One-and-a-half centuries after Lewis Carroll introduced Alice, the White Rabbit, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee and the Mad Hatter, readers are every bit as delighted and bemused by the surreal dreamscape of Wonderland. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will never grow old, and in this beautiful, oversized, hardcover anniversary edition--with the complete, unabridged text--readers will fall in love all over again with the classic tale of the girl who fell down the rabbit hole.
Illustrator Anna Bond, of gift and stationery brand Rifle Paper Co., applies her stylish, whimsical touch and distinctive color palette to Alice and her friends, from the inviting jacket and the case-cover art beneath it to the original endpapers and the superb full-color interior illustrations, large and small. No teacup is decorated the same at the Mad Tea-Party, and the Caterpillar with his hookah on a brilliant red mushroom is surrounded by a wilderness of flowers and shrubs. Perhaps loveliest of all are the golden Gryphon and his friend, the sad, beret-sporting Mock Turtle. --Emilie Coulter, freelance writer and editor