Alice is planning to follow the family tradition and become a secret agent, so when she is recruited by Mr. White of Wonderland it seems like just what she is looking for; but Wonderland is seriously weird and her team consists fo Maddie, who insists on stopping for tea every hour, and Kitty, who disappears (literally) at odd moments--and her first assignment, to sneak into Queenie Heart's garden party, may well turn out to be her last.
Alice is a skilled pre-teen secret agent, but when she joins the forces of Wonderland, she's in over her head. Nothing they do makes sense! Mr. White, the new boss, is always running late for something. Maddie makes wacky gadgets and hats but stops for tea every hour. And Alice's new partner, Kitty, literally disappears during their mission training. How can Alice sneak into the evil Queenie Hearts's garden party and stop her top-secret, world-ending plan amid all this madness? With Far Out Classic Stories, experience Alice's Adventures in Wonderland like never before in this twisted graphic novel retelling for kids.
Alice is planning to follow the family tradition and become a secret agent, so when she's recruited by Mr. White of Wonderland it seems like just what she's looking for. But Wonderland is seriously weird and her team consists of Maddie, who insists on stopping for tea every hour, and Kitty, who disappears (literally) at odd moments--and her first assignment, to sneak into Queenie Heart's garden party, may well turn out to be her last.
A magical classic with a squeaky twist! Alice's enchanted world has never looked so furry. This Alice doesn't need to fall down a rabbit hole. She's got a mousehole of her own, thanks very much! The Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the Mock Turtle are all waiting for Alice in Wonderland. But will she survive a very scary game of croquet? Holey Cheese!
Cowgirl Dorothy and her horse Toto are taking the Yellow Dust Road on the way to the Great Wiz Kid's Emerald Circus of Oz for auditions. Along the way she meets Tinny, Crow, Leo, and Strega West who are also looking to audition--but in the morning Strega's disappeared, along with Dorothy's lucky silver spurs, and Dorothy must summon her inner courage to perform her best at the audition.
In the distant future, kid-genius Robin Hood has invented amazing time-traveling technology! Except his company only wants to use the tech to make sure history stays exactly the same. So Robin decides to take matters into his own hands, jump through time, and help people throughout the ages! Along the way the time traveler teams up with other caring kids, but with Robin's heartless boss chasing the group, how much longer can they keep up this noble quest? With Far Out Classic Stories, experience the tale of Robin Hood like never before in this twisted graphic novel retelling for kids!
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.
