Current mood:	nerdy
Entry tags:	alice's adventures in wonderland, lewis carroll, michael foreman

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Third Post (More Illustrations)
I like that Mr. Foreman illustrated each pair of verses from "You Are Old, Father William". I always wonder, though, why that is commonly done with "Father William" and very rarely done with either "The Walrus and the Carpenter" or "Jabberwocky".

The tea party was interesting. I didn't feel like the rendition of the Dormouse worked and I very much disliked that the chairs all matched. I did like the pile of hats on the Mad Hatter's head as well as the face on the teapot.

The cards bugged me. The gardeners are supposed to be spades, but the picture clearly shows hearts! I think that is one of the cleverest details in the whole book and the illustrator messed it up!

I liked the Gryphon very much, but some of the others I wondered about. Why is the Cheshire Cat always striped? The text never mentions stripes. And why does the Mock Turtle always have goat/calf legs and a long tail? Again, the text never mentions such things! I just find it all odd.

Overall I don't think that I like these illustrations very much.