Alice

What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversation?

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, 1865

I have been enamored with the story

of Alice in Wonderland as long as I can remember.

Lewis Carroll's creativity is unmatched

and there is a lot of meaning in his

literary nonsense. I've seen various editions

and wildly different illustrations but

Leonard Weisgard did it best.

Weisgard, a Caldecott award-winning illustrator

of more than 200 children’s books, was perhaps

best known for his collaboration with the author

Margaret Wise Brown (Goodnight, Moon

and Runaway Bunny).

I am obsessing over these prints from his

illustrations of the second editions of

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass:

 

 

Wouldn't these be fab in a little girls room?

So tell me, what is your favorite childhood story?

-- A