Manuela Adriani illustrated an oversized edition of Alice Adventures. To the young reader this huge book is a kind of scenario where they can sympathetically follow Alice. The artist, in her own words, enjoys “doing a bit of everything ”
First published: May, 2014 – by White Star Publisher.
Leonard Weisgard was a ward-winning illustrator of over 200 children’s books. “As a schoolboy, he was dissatisfied with the books supplied by the public schools he attended. He found the illustrations monotonous and thought that the world could not be all that dreary and limited to only one colour.” So he changed it! His books use a wide range of beautiful colours, creating a magic world…
His Alice version, often classified as “astonishingly”, is considered one of the 10 best ever produced. Is certainly one of my favourites!
Published by Harper and Brothers in 1949.
Amy Millicent Sowerby was one of the first illustrators of Carroll’ book. Sowerby’s artwork was among the 1907/08 many new versions of Alice. Interestingly, at the time it was not very well received, and in a collective review of the 1907 editions it was said that “Sowerby attempts work rather too difficult for her, and she has not much imagination”. In 2012, Barry Moser in his Alice Illustrated: 120 Images from the Classic Tales of Lewis Carroll devoted a full chapter to Millicent Sowerby illustrations.
This book was first published by Chatto & Windus in 1907, and later (in 1913) by Hodder & Stoughton (displaying a new set of illustrations).
Yayoi Kusama is a celebrated Japan’s contemporary artist. She has a rare condition that makes her see colourful spots everywhere. Her vision of reality is thus literally surreal and, in a sense, close to hallucinogenic. Her artwork fits Carroll’s story in a particular fascinating way.
A very limited edition of this book was enclosed in a Louis Vuitton’s gigantic packaged with two Yayoi Kusama signed prints. “The gigantic box was meant to make the reader feel as though they had drunk from the bottle labelled ‘Drink me’ and had shrunk to a size similar to that of a White Rabbit.”
First published by Penguin in 2012.
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