Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Lewis Carroll (Author), Jim Dale (Reader)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the river bank, and of having nothing to do...when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. Alice did not think it so very strange to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and then hurried on, she started to wonder! Running after the strange fellow, she was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole. Down jumped Alice after it (never considering how in the world she was to get out again) and she tumbled into a curious world inhabited by the Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Cheshire Cat, and more…

With his marvelous sense of the absurd, Lewis Carroll’s whimsical, fantastical tale delighted children and adults when it was first published in 1865 and has since become a treasured classic of literature.

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About the Author

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898). He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the amusement of eleven-year-old Alice Liddell and her two sisters, who were the daughters of the dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, where Dodgson taught mathematics. The book was published in 1865, and its first companion volume, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, followed in 1871.

From AudioFile

Forget the cartoon version! Dale's expert handling of the characters in Carroll's classic banishes any preconceived voice characterizations from the listener's mind. The old favorites are all here: Alice, the Queen, the Caterpillar, and so on. However, there's more to it than just those few. Carroll's absurd landscape is populated with equally absurd characters, many of them with only a line or two. Dale takes these bit parts and gives them true personalities that might have been ignored in other productions. Moreover, Dale's approach to the story narration bears the kindly, slightly amused tone that one imagines Carroll himself had as he penned his much-loved tale. In a Disneyfied world, one forgets how quirky and delightfully peculiar this story really is���but now Jim Dale has brought us back to Wonderland. A.A. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Audio CD
• Publisher: Listening Library (Audio); Unabridged edition (June 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739367382
• ISBN-13: 978-0739367384
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 5.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #289,487 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #64 in Books > Books on CD > Children's Fiction > Classics

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unabridged audiobook production of Lewis Carroll's classic children's storybook, July 11, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Audio CD)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an unabridged audiobook production of Lewis Carroll's classic children's storybook of a young girl lost in a magical land of fantasy. Read aloud by Grammy and Audie Award-winning performer Jim Dale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a delightful performance that adroitly captures this whimsical spirit of the story. Highly recommended as a giftbook to listeners of all ages, as well as for public library audiobook collections. 3 CDs, 2 hours 57 minutes.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audiobook version review. A+ !, October 15, 2008

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This review is from: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Audio CD)

Audiobook fans might recognize Jim Dale as the narrator of Harry Potter series. He has won two Grammy Awards and seven Audie Awards, and lives up to his reputation in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Dale brings to life this timeless story, giving the iconic book all the justice it deserves. Non only is his English accent comforting and accessible to American ears, he speaks with an ageless authority that instills both comfort and wonder. I can't imagine a better performance! There is something straightforward and comforting about the simple surrealism of Alice.

Listeners of any age will revel in Lewis Caroll's book that defined the genre of children's science fiction. Forget the Disney knock offs - Caroll's original words are as entertaining as they were when first written, and his magical realism still delights beyond the wildest dreams of the most talented modern day writers.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable, January 17, 2010

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This review is from: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Audio CD)

Jim Dale is a hoot to listen to. He captures the sarcasm and word-play that Lewis Carroll weaved into the stories. For those who have heard his reading of the Harry Potter series, some of the voices will sound very familiar. I am listening to this in preparation for the new film version of Alice that is being released.

I enjoy audiobooks generally because I can listen to them on the road, or while confined to a sick bed, or waiting for a plane and so on. Easy to carry many of them on an MP3 player rather than carrying several books. Jim Dale is an excellent reader that really captures the characters and feeling of the stories. I've heard other readers that were quite lackluster, but this one is a keeper.