Nursery Alice

I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a 'Nursery Edition' of Alice with pictures printed in. Lewis Carroll's diary; 15th February; 1881 The Nursery Alice; originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890; was the very first colour edition of Alice. It was intended; wrote Carroll; to be read by Children aged from Nought to Five. To be read? Nay; not so! Say rather to be thumbed; to be cooed over; to be dogs'-eared; to be rumpled; to be kissed . . . With this new; younger readership in mind; Carroll rewrote Alice; simplifying and abridging the original text; while Tenniel redrew; enlarged and coloured twenty of his iconic illustrations. The resulting book is a delightfully engaging experience; readers prompted to interact not only with the story but also with the images and even the physical book itself; in a way that is thoroughly modern. Gloriously reproduced for the anniversary year; this edition retains the every word of the original The Nursery Alice and restores the exquisite delicacy of Tenniel's artwork - lost in reproductions across the decades - along with the delightful cover artwork by Emily Gertrude Thomson. This gem of a book is the perfect introduction to Alice; a delight for child and adult readers alike.