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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

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A timeless collection of 21 tales for all ages

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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The Wind in the Willows; Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner

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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down the way a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh

The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books lies in language. . .. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children

Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at all

"What is the use of a book" thought Alice "without pictures or conversation?" If you feel the same way, then you'll love Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is full of good conversations. Alice talks to a pipe-smoking caterpillar and a mad hatter

So what makes these different to any other set of classics? In a moment of inspiration Random House had the bright idea of actually asking Key stage 2 children what extra ingredients they could add to make children want to read. And does it work? Well, put it this way...my 13-year-old daughter announced that she had to read a book over the summer holiday and, without any prompting, spotted The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas...and proceeded to read it! Now, if you knew my 13-year-old daughter, you would realise that this is quite remarkable. She reads texts, blogs and tags by the thousand - but this is the first book she has read since going to high school, so all hail Vintage Classics!

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CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICE 
 
Oh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting! 
 
Would you be surprised to see a white rabbit take a watch out of his waistcoat pocket? It certainly seems a remarkable sight to Alice and, full of curiosity, she follows him down a rabbit-hole into a very strange world. She meets a disappearing cat, plays croquet with a bad-tempered Queen, joins a mad Hatter's tea party and becomes entangled in the case of some missing tarts. In Wonderland nothing but out-of-the-way things happen... 
 
Includes Through the Looking Glass. 
 
BACKSTORY: Learn about the author and what inspired him to create Wonderland, and try writing some nonsense verse!

It has been 150 years since Alice was first invented by Lewis Carroll but she is still one of our greatest children's characters - follow her down the rabbit hole and discover Wonderland!

'Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!' 
 
Would you be surprised to see a white rabbit take a watch out of his waistcoat pocket? It certainly seems a remarkable sight to Alice and, full of curiosity, she follows him down a rabbit-hole into a very strange world. She meets a disappearing cat, plays croquet with a bad-tempered Queen, joins a mad Hatter's tea party and becomes entangled in the case of some missing tarts. In Wonderland nothing but out-of-the-way things happen... 
 
Includes Through the Looking Glass. 
 
Includes exclusive material: In ‘The Backstory’ you can learn about the author and what inspired him to create Wonderland, and try writing some nonsense verse! 
 
Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from Peter Pan and Black Beauty to modern classics such asThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on 27th January 1832 at Daresbury in Cheshire. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford University and later became a mathematics lecturer there. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872) for the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. He was very fond of puzzles and some readers have found mathematical jokes and codes hidden in his Alice books. His other works include Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869), The Hunting of the Snark (1876), Rhyme? And Reason? (1882), The Game of Logic (1887) and Sylvie and Bruno (1889, 1893). Dodgson was also an influential photographer. He died on 14th January 1898.

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