![]() ![]() ‘That curious, hallucinating heroine Alice, friend of Cheshire cats and untimely rabbits, is turning 150 years old. ![]() Over forty years after she presented Lewis Carroll's masterpiece to a Scandinavian audience, Tove Jansson's beautifully illustrated edition of the original text of this classic work is finally made available to an English-speaking audience. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with a deluxe oversized hardcover edition, illustrated in full color by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. ![]() What is less well known is that in 1966 she devoted her unique gifts to illustrating Alice's extraordinary adventures. Jansson is renowned worldwide for her hugely successful Moomin books. Alice in Borderland (Japanese:, Hepburn: Imawa no Kuni no Arisu) is a Japanese suspense manga series written and illustrated by Haro Aso. In Tove Jansson, the story of Alice finds an illustrator worthy of its enchantment and surreal beauty. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Tove Jansson / ISBN 9781854379573 / 110-page hardback from Tate Publishing with color and black-and-white illustrationsĭescribed by The Times on its first publication in 1865 as "an excellent piece of nonsense," this inspired tale of a young girl's adventures in a strange and magical world has gone on to become one of the most popular books ever written, translated into over 125 languages and said to be the most frequently quoted book after the Bible, Koran and Shakespeare. ![]()
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