Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There (Illustrated)
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Publisher Description
«Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There», firstly published in 1871, is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to «Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland». It is based on his meeting with another Alice, Alice Raikes. Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Though not quite as popular as «Wonderland», «Through the Looking-Glass» includes such celebrated verses as «Jabberwocky» and «The Walrus and the Carpenter», and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
The ebook «Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There» from Animedia Company contains more than 50 color and black-and-white illustrations by John Tenniel.
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Reynolds has a friendly, frolicksome tone that helps children engage with Carroll's verbal antics, delightful silliness, and the very amusing concept of moving through and maneuvering in the reverse world of a mirror. Reynolds actually manages to recite the book's famous verse "Jabberwocky" backward, as though reading it in mirror writing. "It seems very pretty," Alice says, "but it's rather hard to understand!" Children familiar with the game of chess will take giggly pleasure in Alice's maneuvers on the squares and her encounters with the red and white kings and queens and other characters familiar from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Reynolds' vocal antics help children interpret words and actions and enhance the many pleasures of Alice's post-Wonderland journey while managing to keep adult listeners entertained.
