The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider
The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider

Author: Janis Freegard

Publisher: Anomalous Press

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 193978106X

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The humorous free verse poetry in this labyrinthine web of words introduces the character of Alice Spider, a metaphoric character and source of inspiration to the poet who embodies the contradiction of a woman's desires as she grows up in the modern world. Alice Spider spins the words into a prose-like story, dancing them around until they spill onto the page. Alice is both a true friend and a trollopy little tart—the webster who weaves herself a wild, wild life. This prose-poem sequence, reminiscent of the beats' style but written with more economy, includes drinking champagne in a hot air balloon, an exploration of surrealism, and an unusual encounter with a burglar.

Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Publisher: Seven Books

Published: 2024-09-25

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 3988655856

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.

The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider
The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider

Author: Janis Freegard

Publisher: Anomalous Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781939781000

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Poetry. Women's Studies. Feminist Studies. "'Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety' these words weren't first written for Alice Spider, but they should have been. She is a heroine for our times a multitasker of the human spirit and a joy in all her manifestations. Cherish her, and take her to your hearths." Mary Cresswell, author of Trace Fossils"

Out Here
Out Here

Author: Emma Barnes

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1776710770

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A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and much, much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.

The Wyrm King
The Wyrm King

Author: Tony DiTerlizzi

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-02-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1665930047

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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles and get ready for the series soon to be streaming on Disney+ with this eighth and final installment in the fantastical adventures featuring updated text. The Wyrm King was previously published under the series title Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. Nick and Laurie thought their worries were behind them when they drove all the giants into the sea. But now, the Grace kids have come to tell them they may have more trouble coming their way! It turns out the giants control the population of Hydra, a dragon-like creature that is creating sinkholes all over Florida. But with the mermaids refusing to return the giants to the shore, the nixies still missing and the threat of a destroyed Florida drawing closer, the kids have to take matters in their own hands. Will Nick and Laurie be able to stop the destruction they unwittingly caused with the help of the Field Guide?

Alice In Leatherland
Alice In Leatherland

Author: Iolanda Zanfardino

Publisher: Black Mask Entertainment

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781955802093

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“This romantic comedy, written by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli, who are a couple, is most assuredly for adults: The story depicts — sometimes with little left to the imagination — the ups and downs of casual sex.” (-The New York Times) Alice, a young writer of children's story books, is hurtled out of her fairytale-like life when she discovers her girlfriend has been cheating on her! Charmingly defiant, she leaves her small forest town and leaps into a new adventure to seek love (and find herself) in the fast life of San Francisco. There, her concept of pure, magical love will be completely overturned--but her biggest challenge won't be reckoning with other people's sexual drive, it'll be getting a grip on her own! From your new favorite writer and artist team of Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli, Alice In Leatherland is a comedy about sex and so, inevitably, about every other aspect of life, too. As Iolanda and Elisa describe the book: “Sex is recounted as a way to investigate our relationship with ourselves and others, with our bodies and our place in the world; sexual pleasure as self-affirmation and growth. There is room for Love, too, and bravery. And for many good laughs, that never hurts.”

The Word Spider
The Word Spider

Author: Chris Horn

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781919631202

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The Word Spider follows the adventures of Alice the Albino Spider as she follows her dream to learn to read. With a world full of mini beasts, and a long forgotten enemy. Secrets will be revealed, and the past will come to light.

The Making of the Alice Books
The Making of the Alice Books

Author: Ronald Reichertz

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780773520813

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Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. The Making of the Alice Books includes discussions of the didactic and nursery rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.

Quotation Index to Children's Literature
Quotation Index to Children's Literature

Author: Melanie Axel-Lute

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-04-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 031300918X

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Not just an anthology, this extensive index offers keyword, title, and author name access to more than 1,800 quotations from nearly 500 classic, award-winning, and popular works for children. Pearls of humor and wisdom from authors such as the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Seuss, Judith Viorst, and Shel Silverstein are at your fingertips. Very few quotations have been indexed in other works, making this a unique tool to find that elusive quote. A sure-to-please reference tool for school and public libraries-not just in children's departments-this book helps you identify the source of unusual terms or names such as tesseract or Who-ville and makes a great resource for locating quotes addressing special occasions. Fun for browsing!

AUP New Poets 3
AUP New Poets 3

Author: Janis Freegard

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781869404161

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The latest in the series, this third volume showcases Janice Freegard, Reihana Robinson, and Katherine Liddy, three poets with vastly different yet complementary styles. Freegard writes quirky and often surreal poems about a Wellington inhabited by strange animals, art, and people. Robinson's poems are tropical but gritty, with many set on Pitcairn Island and interspersed with touching lyrics about family and identity in fractured English. Liddy is a promising young poet who has an unusual interest in and an ear for rhyme and rhythm; while some of her poems are texturally dense, she has an impressive range and a pleasing variety.