![]() ![]() Lewis Carroll kept tight control on his work but after his death and especially once the copyright ran out, artists and illustrators enthusiastically jumped in. ![]() Monica Edinger discusses in the article " A Very Important Date" that after 150 years Lews Carroll's, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" has captured the popular imagination worldwide. ![]() It is these modern-day transformations that are the most exhilarating- evidence that, a century and a half after she came into being, Carroll’s dream child Alice is still thriving."Įdinger, M. ![]() These have included creating illustrations. The students and I are always fascinated by exactly what the artists choose to illustrate.īest of all are the ways my students themselves transform the source material. "The children follow along as I read-selecting a different illustrated edition from my classroom collection for each session-amazed, as I still am, by the choices artists make in terms of media, settings, and scenes, each turning that little Victorian girl and her fantastical world into something completely original. In 1990 Monica Edinger learned during a seminar of the many artists who illustrated the book that she designed a new language arts unit for her fourth graders "The Many Faces of Alice." Alice's journey to Wonderland seems never-ending. Monica Edinger in the article " Alice, The Transformer" discusses that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been illustrated by a steady stream of illustrators. ![]()
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