So they solemnly began dancing about
£75.00
Title: So they solemnly began dancing about
Artist: Helen Oxenbury – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Official Collector’s Edition of 495
Image: 210mm x 260mm
Mounted: 360mm x 420mm
For a century and a half Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s classic story of logic and lunacy, has delighted young and old alike. Gorgeously illustrated, this award-winning rendition is full of warmth and humour. The whole approach is contemporary and accessible: Alice herself is a child of today – casually dressed, personable, spirited. In Helen Oxenbury’s hands, the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland is a wondrous place indeed!
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and went on to become a mathematics lecturer there from 1855 to 1881.Lewis Carroll’s most famous works are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(published 1865) and the sequel Alice Through the Looking-Glass, which contained the nonsense poem classic The Jabberwocky (published 1872).
Growing up in Ipswich, England, Helen Oxenbury loved nothing more than drawing. As a teenager, she entered art school and basked in the pleasure of drawing, and nothing but drawing, all day. During vacations she helped out at the Ipswich Repertory Theatre workshop, mixing paints for set designers. It was there that she decided her future lay in theatre design.
While studying costume design, however, Helen Oxenbury was told by a teacher, “This is hopeless, you know. You ought to go and do illustrations-you’re much more interested in the character, and we don’t know who’s going to play the part!”
But sets and scenery, not books, remained Helen Oxenbury’s preoccupation for several more years as she embarked on careers in theatre,film, and TV. After marrying John Burningham, another of the world’s most eminent children’s book illustrators, and giving birth to their first child, at last she turned to illustrating children’s books. “When I had babies,” Helen Oxenbury says, “I wanted to be home with them and look for something to do there.”
Today, Helen Oxenbury is among the most popular and critically acclaimed illustrators of her time. She is a two-time Greenaway Medal winner, and her numerous books for children include ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and its companion, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, both by Lewis Carroll; Smarties Book Prize-winning FARMER DUCK by Martin Waddell; SO MUCH by Trish Cooke; as well as her classic board books for babies. More recently,she collaborated with author Phyllis Root on the jubilant, no-nonsense talltale BIG MOMMA MAKES THE WORLD.