Books with title Underground Adventure

A treasured early manuscript version of one of the most enduring children’s stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Charles Dodgson, later to be known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematics tutor at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1856 he became friends with Henry Liddell and his family. Dodgson’s friendship with the Liddell children would lead to one of the most successful children's books ever. The story was told to Alice Liddell and her sisters, Lorina and Edith, on a trip down the river on July 4, 1862. During the trip, Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. Alice asked Dodgson to write it down for her. On November 26, 1864, Dodgson presented Alice with this manuscript as “A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day”. Dodgson was encouraged by friends to publish his manuscript so everyone could enjoy it. So how did the manuscript end up at the British Library? Alice Liddell treasured it until 1928 but was forced to sell it to pay death duties for her husband. The manuscript sold at Sotheby’s for £15,000 to a Dr. Rosenbach. He in turn sold it to Eldridge Johnson. Following Johnson’s death in 1946, the manuscript was again at auction. This time it was purchased by a group of benefactors who donated the manuscript to the British Museum in 1948. Produced by Devin Lawrence in Vrindavana Production Executive Avalon Giuliano in London ICON intern Eden Giuliano in Delhi Music by AudioNautix with their kind permission

Large size (A4)Alice's Adventures Underground. The absence of illustrations in this book is deliberate. This leaves the child and reader free to imagine their own characters. I believe that Dodgsons intention, by the remarks of Alice at the front, when glancing at her sisters book, and her sisters comments at the end, when she imagined the adventure herself, was to introduce imaginative learning from literature.

The twins Maike and Manon would stay at their grandparents' farm in the summer for a few weeks. Grandpa told them stories from the past. While playing, the girls found a few loose boards on the wall. This marked the beginning of a wonderful adventure with strange creatures, but are they friends or foes? Ronald van de Water (1968) a father of five children, writes in his spare time. After the birth of his children, he focused his talents on children's stories, first by telling them then by capturing his imagination on paper. Maike and Manon emerged from the narratives he told his daughters. He opens them up to children all over the world by publishing this work of his.

Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. To add the finishing touches he researched natural history for the animals presented in the book. On 26 November 1864 he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day"

On the enchanted planet of Otherland, thirteen-year-old Bunker Charles is forced by a one-inch tall Flooglebopper to return with him to the center of Otherland in his cobamole. There he is required to defend the diminutive mining community's precious mangolite from the one-foot tall Bargolians, who plan to steal the mangolite to light their underground city. Bunker’s friend Gittel is captured by the High Priest of Bargolia while attempting to rescue him and forced to to fight against him in their defence. Can Bunker use diplomacy to reconcile the two sides and rescue Gittel?

Charles Dodgson, pen name Lewis Caroll, is most often remembered for Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. These books were incredibly popular during his life time and remain so until today. It all began with his friendship with the Liddell family. They had a little girl, Alice who one day asked Charles to tell her a story. He did so. She liked it so much that she begged him to write it down, which eventually he did. This is the story in this edition. He read it to the children of his friends, who were enthusiastic about it. He expanded it and sent it around to publishers. That new edition became Alice in Wonderland.