Thursday, March 4, 2010

Great YA Read for March

Find your way back to the classics. This month why not try Lewis Carroll's great work of literature, Alice in Wonderland. My suggestion would be to read it before you see the movie version with Johnny Depp. The Alice in the novel is based on the real Alice Liddell. She and her sisters were friends of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). In the novel, Alice is a young girl of about 10. She and her sister are sitting by the bank of a river when suddenly, Alice sees something very strange and she is off on an adventure. The novel is full of humor, wild imaginings , nonsense verse and moral insight but it is just as easy to read the work has a wonderful piece of literature. Part of the fun of the novel is the rich detail Carroll incorporates into the story. Every age takes something different from the story. Go ahead and give it a try. As Alice says "curiouser and curiouser".