Cricket Through the Looking Glass

Cricket Through the Looking Glass
Author: Paul Newton
Publisher: Melrose Book Company
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010
Genre: Cricket matches
ISBN: 9781907040030

This is a unique book conveying a vivid description complete with detailed scorecards of a series of matches that have never in fact taken place. The vaults of imagination are plumbed to allow anyone who has ever existed, real or fictional, to reveal themselves under the singular aegis of the game of cricket.

Diabetes Through the Looking Glass

Diabetes Through the Looking Glass
Author:
Publisher: Class Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Children
ISBN: 1859592090

The author combines her own experience growing up with diabetes and interviews with children and adults to provide an insight into what it feels like to grow up with diabetes. It covers the different phases of diagnosis and acceptance, hypos, blood tests and injections, school and teenage years, life beyond home.

Alice-But Not Through The Looking Glass

Alice-But Not Through The Looking Glass
Author: Geoffrey Lewis
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 059538126X

Alice, the author's mother, is mentioned frequently in this account of his book. A disciplinarian to no small degree, she did her best in the trying pre-war times of unemployment. A fair amount of the author's recollections concerns the ups and downs of life in the small Derbyshire town of Clowne in the thirties. The history and records of shops and ownership in Clowne might be said to be as meticulous as the records in the Doomsday book! But what makes this volume most valuable is the author's memories and insights into that ballerina of the skies, the Spitfire, the key player in the Battle of Britain. And who better qualified to sing these praises than a Spitfire pilot? For out of Clowne came Geoffrey Lewis, a living legend now in his eighties, one of our heroes who gives us first-hand information about his 'Spitty', apart from the absorbingly interesting account of his aircraft training in Prince Albert, in Canada, prior to engaging battle in Britain.

Through my looking glass

Through my looking glass
Author: Partha Chatterjee
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1684669367

Partha never worked behind a desk and from 9 to 5. He started his career in the exotic tea gardens of Northeast India and continued his career in luxury hotels around the country. During his life’s journey, he met various interesting people, and he has been in unique situations. These stories make up this beautiful collection.” There are celebrated movies and books on the people he encountered like Dr. John Nash covered in the film A Beautiful Mind, female war correspondents reflected in the movie Private War and his association with JRD Tata and Russi Mody, The story of Billy Arjan Singh and Billy’s association with the film Born Free, Partha’s own experiences during The Sikh Riots and his travels through Zululand are just some of the stories.” This is an anthology of a person’s experiences who knows how to spin a tale.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2015-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770485724

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 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies. The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1871, and was both a popular success and appreciated by critics for its wit and philosophical sophistication. Along with both novels and the original Tenniel illustrations, this edition includes Carroll’s earlier story Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Appendices include Carroll’s photographs of the Liddell sisters, materials on film and television adaptations, selections from other “looking-glass” books for children, and “The Wasp in a Wig,” an originally deleted section of Through the Looking-Glass.

Through the Looking-Glass - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6

Through the Looking-Glass - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6
Author: Chad Ibbotson
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1771676396

Travel to a strange land and find out what it's like to be a piece in a chess game. A variety of question styles ensure students stay engaged with the novel and better enjoy the story. Compare Alice's movements in the mirror world to that of a pawn in the game of chess. Answer a series of multiple choice questions to show comprehension of Alice and the Queen's interaction. Using details gathered throughout the novel, draw a map of the looking-glass world. Become familiar with synonyms by finding words that mean the same as the underlined words found in the text. Compare the real world to the looking-glass world by describing events and actions that take place in both. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: Through the Looking-Glass is a fantastical story about a mirrored world beyond the reflective glass. The story follows Alice six months after her adventures in Wonderland. This time, Alice climbs through the mirror on top of her mantelpiece and finds herself in an alternate world from her own. Alice soon becomes part of a large-scale chess game, where she meets strange and interesting characters through her journey. Traveling the land, Alice meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, learns of the Walrus and the Carpenter, runs into the Red and White Kings and Queens before being crowned Queen herself. Through the Looking-Glass is a strange tale of chess, strategy, and imagination. A great companion to the Disney movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass with Johnny Depp.

The Making of the Alice Books

The Making of the Alice Books
Author: Ronald Reichertz
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780773520813

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.

Sessional Papers

Sessional Papers
Author: Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1064
Release: 1913
Genre: Ontario
ISBN:

Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature

Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature
Author: John Bale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2007-11-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134100485

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature. The book commences with a review of exiting pro- and anti-sport discourses and then proceeds to examine, in turn, the written works of five eminent authors, excavating from their writings their anti-sports rhetorics. These writers are Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jerome K. Jerome, John Betjeman and Alan Sillitoe. In its conclusion, the book draws together the broad themes discussed in the preceding chapters. Innovative in its approach to sport and literature and remarkable for its not having been previously explored in any depth, this book will be of interest to readers from both social sciences and humanities backgrounds.

Talking Animals in Children's Fiction

Talking Animals in Children's Fiction
Author: Catherine Elick
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-03-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786478780

Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children's literature. Yet only in the modern period have animal characters become true subjects rather than objects of human neglect or benevolence. Modern fantasies reflect the shift from animal welfare to animal rights in 20th-century public discourse. This revolution in literary animal-human relations began with Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and continued with the work of Kenneth Grahame, Hugh Lofting, P.L. Travers and E. B. White. Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines ways in which animal characters gain an aura of authority through using language and then participate in reversals of power. The author provides a close reading of 10 acclaimed British and American children's fantasies or series published before 1975. Authors whose work has received little scholarly attention are also covered, including Robert Lawson, George Selden and Robert C. O'Brien.