Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s book, Aleksandra Artymowska’s stunning scenes are packed with references to the original, from the Mad Hatter’s tea party to lines of marching playing cards. Readers must riddle their way from one page to another, cracking clues, finding hidden objects, and meandering through mazes. Beautifully illustrated and full of nostalgic charm, this imaginative puzzle book will appeal to readers young and old.
Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings in puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. Challenges range from easy to difficult and include solutions, plus 60 charming illustrations. "An ingenious book." — Boston Globe.
Travel with Alice down the rabbit hole into the fantastic world of Wonderland, and help a cast of extraordinary characters solve these tantalising puzzles and enigmas. Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, was a huge fan of puzzles and was said to have invented the word ladder. In this book you can deduce the card hand of Tweedledee, decide which bottle contains the growing potion and calculate the White Queen's position on a chess board. Each of these puzzles is set within a short adventure of Alice's and accompanied by the original pen-and-ink illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. This collection includes: • Rebus puzzles • Word ladders • Lateral-thinking • Zigzag puzzles
Challenging collection includes some of the worldrsquo;s most perplexing brain-teasers by such masters as Sam Loyd, Johnny Eck and Henry Dudeney. Also, the stories behind the creation of the puzzles, the worldrsquo;s earliest riddles, the birth of the crossword puzzle, much more. Introduction. 146 illus.
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.
First published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July of 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a surreal world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside-down with their mind-boggling logic and word play, and their fantastic parodies. Carroll's fable illustrates his masterful ability to weave logic with nonsense in a tale that continues to delight all ages. While this great classic is widely available, the Broadview edition is unique. Richard Kelly combines Alice's Adventures in Wonderland not with the later (and largely distinct) work Through the Looking Glass but rather with Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Lewis Carroll's first version of the story. Readers are thus able to trace the literary revisions, and to compare Caroll's own illustrations in the original with the famous John Tenniel illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Among the many other materials included in the Broadview Literary Texts edition are a substantial selection of early reviews, selections from Carroll's diaries and correspondence, Carroll's early nonsense poems, and the originals of the poems parodied in his text.
'Remember when you played cards or knucklebones or noughts and crosses? Or what about charades, murder in the dark, I spy or hide and seek? Or made chatterboxes, those devices made from a square of paper that you flipped open between thumbs and forefingers with wishes and dreams under the flaps.This book has the lot. It may even ween you off the telly. Remember blind man's buff? What about conversations, in which players discuss a topic by starting each sentence with a consecutive letter of the alphabet? Great family fun ' Sun Herald Written by two young mums, Parlour Games for Modern Families sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games.This book is bursting with games of logic and memory, wordplay, card games, role-play, and rough and tumble. No game requires any equipment beyond a pack of cards, a dictionary, dice, paper, and pen. Games are organised thematically and referenced for age-appropriateness. All are set out with clear rules and instructions. There are games that will challenge and stimulate you, and games that will have you in fits; games that can last all night, and games to fill that empty half-hour before tea; games for adults and older children, and games to keep all the kids at a four-year-old's birthday party happy. Every family and every home needs a copy.
Englisch Lernen mit klassischen Werken. Die Bücher dieser Reihe eignen sich für Jugendliche und Erwachsene, die mit klassischen Werken ihre Lesefähigkeit verbessern wollen. Englisch Niveaus A2 bis B2. Durchgehend in englischer Sprache. "Alice im Wunderland" ist ein klassischer Roman von Lewis Carroll, erstmals veröffentlicht im Jahr 1865. Diese phantastische Erzählung erzählt die Abenteuer des jungen Mädchens Alice, das einem weißen Kaninchen in ein magisches Untergrundreich folgt. In dieser wundersamen Welt trifft Alice auf eine Vielzahl von unvergesslichen Figuren wie die Grinsekatze, die verrückte Hutmacher, die Märzhase und die tyrannische Herzkönigin. Jede Begegnung stellt Alice vor neue Herausforderungen und Rätsel, die sie mit Witz und oft mit einer Prise gesundem Menschenverstand löst. Eines der markantesten Merkmale des Buches ist seine spielerische Manipulation der Logik, was es zu einem der ersten Beispiele in der literarischen Nonsens-Tradition macht. Die Welt, in die Alice stolpert, ist bizarr und die Regeln der Realität gelten hier nicht. Stattdessen wird Alice mit absurden Gedichten, paradoxen Rätseln und merkwürdigen Gesetzen konfrontiert, die sie und den Leser gleichermaßen amüsieren und verwirren. Das Buch bleibt ein zeitloser Klassiker, der für seine kreativen Wortspiele, seine humorvolle Erzählung und seine Fähigkeit, die Realität auf den Kopf zu stellen, geliebt wird.
Englisch Lernen mit klassischen Werken. Die Bücher dieser Reihe eignen sich für Jugendliche und Erwachsene, die mit klassischen Werken ihre Lesefähigkeit verbessern wollen. Englisch Niveaus A2 bis B2. Durchgehend in englischer Sprache. "Alice im Wunderland" ist ein klassischer Roman von Lewis Carroll, erstmals veröffentlicht im Jahr 1865. Diese phantastische Erzählung erzählt die Abenteuer des jungen Mädchens Alice, das einem weißen Kaninchen in ein magisches Untergrundreich folgt. In dieser wundersamen Welt trifft Alice auf eine Vielzahl von unvergesslichen Figuren wie die Grinsekatze, die verrückte Hutmacher, die Märzhase und die tyrannische Herzkönigin. Jede Begegnung stellt Alice vor neue Herausforderungen und Rätsel, die sie mit Witz und oft mit einer Prise gesundem Menschenverstand löst. Eines der markantesten Merkmale des Buches ist seine spielerische Manipulation der Logik, was es zu einem der ersten Beispiele in der literarischen Nonsens-Tradition macht. Die Welt, in die Alice stolpert, ist bizarr und die Regeln der Realität gelten hier nicht. Stattdessen wird Alice mit absurden Gedichten, paradoxen Rätseln und merkwürdigen Gesetzen konfrontiert, die sie und den Leser gleichermaßen amüsieren und verwirren. Das Buch bleibt ein zeitloser Klassiker, der für seine kreativen Wortspiele, seine humorvolle Erzählung und seine Fähigkeit, die Realität auf den Kopf zu stellen, geliebt wird.
This is Book 1, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words. Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions. Text Information Readability | 93 Total word count | 17949 Words beyond 1500 | 657 Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.66 Unknown headword occurrence | 3.07 Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 40 Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 111 Synopsis A young girl, Alice, is sitting on the bank of a river with her sister, reading a book without pictures in it. Suddenly Alice notices a rabbit run by. She follows the rabbit down a hole. This is where her strange adventure begins …. This book is rewritten from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). It is one of the most popular children’s books in the world and has been translated into about 100 languages.
