The Nursery Alice

<p><b><i>"I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a 'Nursery Edition' of </i>Alice<i> with pictures</i> <i>printed in."</i><br></b>– Lewis Carroll's diary, 15th February 1881<br><br><i>The Nursery Alice</i>, originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i>. It was intended, wrote Carroll, <i>"to be read by Children aged from Nought to Five. To be read? Nay, not so! Say rather to be thumbed, to be cooed over, to be dogs'-eared, to be rumpled, to be kissed . . ."</i><br><br>With this new, younger readership in mind, Carroll rewrote <i>Alice </i>himself, simplifying and abridging the original text, while Sir John Tenniel redrew, enlarged and coloured twenty of his iconic illustrations (with Alice in a yellow dress to reflect the 1890s craze for yellow!). The resulting book is a delightfully engaging experience; readers prompted to interact not only with the story but also with the images and even the physical book itself, in a way that is thoroughly modern.<br><br>Gloriously reproduced by Macmillan, the original publishers of both Lewis Carroll's <i>Alice </i>books, this edition retains every word of the original <i>The Nursery Alice</i> and restores the exquisite delicacy of Tenniel's artwork - lost in reproductions across the decades - along with the delightful cover artwork by Emily Gertrude Thomson. This gem of a book is the perfect introduction to <i>Alice</i>, and a delight for child and adult readers alike.</p>