It’s Alice Again! A Sequel for Summer

admin | May 13th, 2012 - 1:33 am

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abracaDABra welcomes our intrepid little hero’s return as she sets out on her second mysterious and exciting adventure. This time, the fantasy filled land she is preparing to explore lies beyond something we all know never lies, yet never tells the truth….her mirror.

A place where everything seems not just a little different, but as different as she could possibly imagine. A whole new cast of wondrous characters await her arrival, as well as one or two who seem oddly familiar and as ever, they like nothing more than to argue, especially with a stranger…who always answers back! The nine episodes will begin airing on Friday the 9th of July as part of our bedtime story hour at 7pm.

“Through the Looking Glass” is Lewis Carroll’s sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and was written six years later, in 1871. Several aspects of the storyline are based on similar themes. Where the first story used playing cards to represent numerous characters, the second uses chess pieces. Even Alice herself is said to be a pawn who must, as in a real game of chess, reach the eighth square in order to become a queen, while the land through which she travels resembles a giant, real life chessboard, where the squares are lush countryside neatly divided by brooks.

Though not quite as famous as Wonderland, the story is significantly longer and has also been adapted many times for film, television and the theatre. Tim Burton’s recent film, “Alice in Wonderland”, is based largely on the first book but includes characters and elements of plot from both.

The English illustrator, Sir John Tenniel brought Alice to life further by providing a series of captivating drawings. These were subsequently engraved onto blocks of wood for printing and copying. The process is known as “woodcut” and required great skill.

The engravers had to make sure that the wood which was cut away from the block exactly matched the blank or white parts of the original drawing and that what remained on the block’s surface, matched the drawing itself.