Through the Looking-Glass Book and Charm (Charming Classics) [Paperback]

Lewis Carroll (Author), John Tenniel (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 24, 2002 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Charming Classics

Alice places a hand on the mirror above the fireplace and, to her surprise, steps into a new world -- a Looking-Glass world. In this magical place, knitting needles turn into oars and big beautiful cakes cut themselves into slices.There are Bread-and-Butterflies hovering in the air, a garden full of talking flowers, and two big-bellied brothers -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- running round and round the mulberry bush. This is a land where everything from a frog to a lion to a plate of food has something to say ... and a little girl can become a queen.

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Review

'Through the Looking-Glass' is recognized by the American Library Association as one of their 2007 Notable Children's Recordings. -- The Story Circle "American Library Association" --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University, but he is better known to the world as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-glass (1871), as well as The Hunting of the Snark (1876).

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: HarperFestival; Book and Access edition (December 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0694015814
• ISBN-13: 978-0694015818
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,617,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book in its own right., August 11, 2000

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Through the Looking-Glass (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

"Through The Looking Glass" is, perhaps, not QUITE as good as "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland", but it's close enough to still rate five stars. Not, properly, a sequel to the first book, there is no indication at any point in it that the Alice (clearly the same individual, slightly older) from this book ever had the adventures in the first one; there is no reference to her previous adventures, even when she once again meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Obviously, the two books are intended as parallel adventures, not subsequent ones.

The most memorable bits from this book are doubtlessly the poem, "Jabberwocky", as well as chapter six, "Humpty Dumpty". But all of the book is marvellous, and not to be missed by anyone who enjoys a magical romp through silliness and playful use of the English language.

(This review refers to the unabridged "Dover Thrift Edition".)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better!, September 28, 2010

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S.K. Wells "Aslan's Princess" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Through the Looking Glass: Complete and Unabridged (Paperback)

I personally liked Through the Looking Glass even better than Alice in Wonderland. Though I first picked up this book with apprehension, (how could anyone possibly come up with still more nonsense after a previous book so chuck full of it) I was soon grinning with delight. It is every bit as weird and crazy as the original, but in a slightly different way. For it is not Wonderland that Alice visits this time, but a larger-than-life chessboard. Alice becomes a pawn and begins on her journey toward Queen-hood. Along the way she runs into many nursery-rhyme creatures, a few of which I recognized, and many more that I did not. Someone more well versed in this area will most likely find the book even funnier than I did. In fact, I liked this book so much, that I have just finished reading it a second time, and it remained every bit as funny as the first time. So, Wonderland lovers, go ahead and read this book. You will not be disappointed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Peake is the man!, January 4, 2007

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Ryan C. Brooks "crazy zen mystic" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Hardcover)

Illustrations are plenty, and the introduction is a nice addition. The best illustrated version I have ever seen, great for fans of Carroll and Peake both.