Week 7
Mood:  crushed out
Topic: Modern Fantasy
Alice in Wonderland Summary: A small blond girl with cyan eyes named Alice is bored while on a picnic with her sister. She finds interest in a white rabbit, dressed in a top coat and mattering " I'm late which she follows down a rabbit's hole. She drops down into dream underworld of paradox, the absurd and the improbable. As she attempts to follow the rabbit, she meets a group of small animals stranded in a sea of her tears, then gets trapped in the rabbit's house, meets a baby which changes into a pig and a cat which disappears, goes to a never ending tea party, plays croquet with ananthropomorphised deck of curds, goes to the shore and meets some more odd creatures until the story ends with the Knave of Hearts being put on trial for stealing some tarts, and Alice waking up underneath a tree back with her sister. Recommended books: Wish Gail Crson Levine, Little Ones Do Jana Novotny Hante, Up up and Away Magaret Hillet Thematic elements Games, Nonsense