The Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll, Chris Riddell (Illustrator)

Overview

A beautiful edition of Lewis Carroll's beloved poem, featuring illustrations by Chris Riddell, 2015–2017 Children's Laureate and author of the Goth Girl and Ottoline series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509814343
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	06/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	18 MB
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Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

Lewis Carroll, the pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, is the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, has won a number of major prizes, including the 2001 and 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His previous work for Macmillan includes the Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, Muddle Earth, and the Scavenger series.

Date of Birth:

January 27, 1832

Date of Death:

January 14, 1898

Place of Birth:

Daresbury, Cheshire, England

Place of Death:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Education:

Richmond School, Christ Church College, Oxford University, B.A., 1854; M.A., 1857

Website:

http://www.lewis-carroll-birthplace.org.uk/

Editorial Reviews

"Chris Riddell provides bold illustrations, which genuflect to Henry Holiday's charismatic ink originals while having a personality of their own." —Times


"This cherishably beautiful hardback of Carroll's epic nautical nonsense poem has absorbing illustrations by the incomparable children's laureate, Chris Riddell." —Sunday Times


"Chris Riddell is an extraordinary talent—this is a wonderful book, an edition of the Snark to be treasured, and Macmillan are to be congratulated for marking the 150th anniversary of this fabulous book with such an exquisite edition." —Books Monthly


“Colorful characters, humor, and wordplay abound.” —School Library Journal


“A handsome volume.” —Kirkus Reviews
 

From the Publisher

2018-01-13
Deceptively harmless-looking monsters and caricatures in fantastical period dress add broad comic notes to Carroll's tale of a party of bumbling hunters in search of a fabled quarry.Catching the flavor of the 1876 original, the verses in this edition are printed in widely spaced lines on heavy, cream-colored stock, with a ribbon for a place marker and meticulously detailed illustrations—mostly fine-lined ink drawings but some in color—on nearly every page. Though worthy of notice for "the Snark was a Boojum, you see," and perhaps "I have said it thrice: / What I tell you three times is true," most of the eight "Fits" into which the poem is divided (there's also a slightly abbreviated prose introduction by Carroll and a preface by Riddell) are filled with extended descriptions and silly exchanges that, even with talk of a Jubjub bird and other "Jabberwocky" references, largely go nowhere at some length. Along with lots of wildly gesticulating hunters (all white), Riddell populates the episode with numerous hairy, confused-looking beasts led by two versions of the Snark. Both of these are blue and shaggy, but one resembles an inoffensive kiwi bird and the other is definitely a Boojum, much larger and more Wild Thing-ish, which poses at the end with a young, blonde white girl (Alice?) previously along in disguise.A handsome volume, but at best it's just an outtake in the Western European literary tradition. (Poetry. 11-13, adult)

Kirkus Reviews