Author: John Kendrick Bangs
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439132240
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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In Alice in April, Aunt Sally reminds Alice that she will be turning thirteen soon (like anyone could forget such a momentous occasion) and that she will be the “woman of the house.” Alice dives into her new role by planning her father’s fiftieth birthday party—and telling everyone in the family to get a physical. But that means Alice herself will have to disrobe at the doctor's! Then there's the latest crisis at school, where the boys have begun to match each girl with the name of a state, according to its geography—mountains or no mountains! As Alice stumbles her way through the minefield of early adolescence in these six new repackages for Summer, there are plenty of bumps, giggles, and surprises along the way.

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442445912
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Includes a reading group guide for the Alice series.

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442446439
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Fourth-grader Alice tries unsuccessfully to avoid embarrassing mistakes and to establish better relations with her older brother Lester.

Author: John Kendrick Bangs
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: John Bangs
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040476434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Will Brooker
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826414335
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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The author of "Batman Unmasked" and "Using the Force", turns his attention to Lewis Carroll and Alice taking the reader through a revealing tour of late 20th Century popular culture, following Alice and her creator wherever they go. The result is an in-depth analysis of how one original creation symbolizes different things to different people.

Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674970764
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll’s imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. It also explains why Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era and why, a century and a half later, they continue to enthrall and delight readers of all ages. The Story of Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and a stodgy traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as they are. (In Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster just to stay in one place.) Tracing the development of the Alice books from their inception in 1862 to Liddell’s death in 1934, Douglas-Fairhurst also provides a keyhole through which to observe a larger, shifting cultural landscape: the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood, murky questions about sex and sexuality, and the relationship between Carroll’s books and other works of Victorian literature. In the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era, Douglas-Fairhurst shows, Wonderland became a sheltered world apart, where the line between the actual and the possible was continually blurred.

Author: Rachel Field
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442407123
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. It is indeed a privilege to publish her memoirs, which, besides being full of the most thrilling adventures on land and sea, also reveal her delightful personality. One glance at her portrait will show that she is no ordinary doll. Hitty, or Mehitable as she was really named, was made in the early 1800s for Phoebe Preble, a little girl from Maine. Young Phoebe was very proud of her beautiful doll and took her everywhere, even on a long sailing trip in a whaler. This is the story of Hitty's years with Phoebe, and the many that follow in the life of a well-loved doll.

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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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