Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party brings this classic and beloved story to young children.Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party provides a faithful introduction to the classic and to Carroll's incredible imagination, something so magical that children will recall it when they are older and ready for the original work. With the simply extraordinary art of Eric Puybaret, Alice and her friends come brilliantly to life for the picture book reader. Read along as Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat, attends a tea party with the Mad Hatter and his friends, plays croquet with the Queen and her retinue, defends herself at trial, and ultimately returns home. Though the original Alice text might be too difficult to understand for pre-readers, the one-of-a-kind characters and fantastical situations are silly and fun and perfect for a picture book adaptation.
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Release date
October 1, 2016 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781633223080
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PDF ebook
- ISBN: 9781633223080
- File size: 8781 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 610
- Text Difficulty: 2-3
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Reviews
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November 15, 2016
Paired to creamy, surreal illustrations, an abbreviated and retold account of Alice's sojourn from her encounter with the Cheshire Cat on in this sequel to Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole (2015).The general plotline remains intact, though along with leaving out the Mock Turtle, the Lobster Quadrille, nearly all of the poetry, and much else, Rhatigan and Nurnberg modernize and retune the language as well. Alice is first offered "juice" rather than wine at the tea party, and later, seeing that she refuses to have her head cut off, the Queen says "Well, okay. Can you play croquet?" Puybaret fills in a few of the missing details (putting gardeners painting white roses red in one scene's background, for instance) but focuses mainly on creating spacious, neatly composed tableaux in harmonious colors. These feature exotic flora, animals in stylish court dress, and (mostly) light-skinned human figures with long pointy noses and glassy eyes. Alice, a blonde, white beauty in a flowing green skirt, wakes at last and is last seen skipping home, heedless of the white rabbit and other previously met characters looking on. The adapters' retelling of co-published The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Adventures, illustrated by Debra Bandelin and Bob Dacey, is similarly abbreviated though not quite so colloquial. A bland if pretty treatment for adults who feel their children are not ready for the original. (Picture book. 5-8)COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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July 1, 2017
Retold by Joe Rhatigan and Charles Nurnberg. Lost in Wonderland, Alice stumbles upon the March Hare's unruly tea party, joins the Queen of Hearts in a curious game of croquet, and wakes to ponder her odd dream. Fans of Carroll will recognize the skeleton of his famous tale, but all of his wordplay and strange logic has been stripped away in favor of an abridgement that emphasizes Puybaret's candy-colored illustrations.(Copyright 2017 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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