The Nursery Alice
Carroll created a short version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1890 to expand the targeted audience to include younger children. This text asks questions of its readers to engage them in the story and the various meanings within the story, clearly showing what Carroll believed his young readers would take from his writing.
This book is useful to the overall study of Alice in Wonderland as it gives a simplified insight into what Carroll wanted his audience to gain from reading his tale. Ultimately this version of the book led to more sales and acts as a tool to access a wider, younger audience.
Carroll is seen as being an academically credible source in relation to the various versions of Alice in Wonderland as the original text was his own creation and his in depth ability to ask questions and to delve into the inner world of Wonderland is unlike any other. Carroll was a Mathematical scholar and a Reverend.
The Nursery "Alice" for children aged "nought to five" due to its simplicity and ability to ask simple questions to its readers to encourage deeper thinking. The pure simplicity of the way in which this version of Alice in Wonderland was created adds to the overall impact of Alice and her trip to Wonderland. By posing to ask questions about the text from the perspective of Carroll the reader is forced to think about the authors reasons as to why he made certain decisions within the original text.
This book is useful to the overall study of Alice in Wonderland as it gives a simplified insight into what Carroll wanted his audience to gain from reading his tale. Ultimately this version of the book led to more sales and acts as a tool to access a wider, younger audience.
Carroll is seen as being an academically credible source in relation to the various versions of Alice in Wonderland as the original text was his own creation and his in depth ability to ask questions and to delve into the inner world of Wonderland is unlike any other. Carroll was a Mathematical scholar and a Reverend.
The Nursery "Alice" for children aged "nought to five" due to its simplicity and ability to ask simple questions to its readers to encourage deeper thinking. The pure simplicity of the way in which this version of Alice in Wonderland was created adds to the overall impact of Alice and her trip to Wonderland. By posing to ask questions about the text from the perspective of Carroll the reader is forced to think about the authors reasons as to why he made certain decisions within the original text.