Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll, Kyle Baker, Sylvain Jacques

Book Overview

Alice's second set of adventures takes her into a world even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn't as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597071153
• ISBN13: 9781597071154
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Papercutz
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 9

Customer Reviews

Curiouser and curiouser...

"Classics Illustrated #3: Through the Looking Glass" Written by Lewis Carroll Adapted and Illustrated by Kyle Baker (Papercutz, 2009) ---------------------------------------------------------- Comicbook auteur Kyle Baker would seem like an ideal match for the madcap spirit of Lewis Carroll's absurdist classic, "Through The Looking Glass," the chess-themed sequel to "Alice In Wonderland." Indeed, Baker's mania-fueled visual style and penchant for warping perspectives (both visual and mental) seem in synch with Carroll's own idiosyncratic sense of humor. This graphic novel adaptation functions best, however, as a supplement to Carroll's work, rather than a free-standing book in its own right... Baker makes a key choice that effects the entire project, and this is to include only the spoken dialogue (and poems) from the original text, and none of Carroll's loopy, delirious prose. This would be okay, if Baker had been able to stretch out and be more expansive in the artwork that replaces the narrative, but in the digest-size of the current "Classics Illustrated" series, his artwork is compressed and functional, rather than chaotic and rule-bending -- there are many close-ups of character's faces, but the settings and scenarios are not always made plain. If you already know the "Looking Glass" story (and know it well), this version may be fascinating in termes of what it has to offer and the artistic choices Baker makes in his presentation. But if you were to use this to try and introduce this Alice story to a younger reader, it might quickly become too confusing. Worth checking out, particularly is you are a Kyle Baker fan (like me), but not a substitute for the richly-written kookiness of the original. (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews)