“This is truly astounding!” Alice said in awe. The boy had a sensitive face in real life the bird in the picture looked equally empathetic despite the lenses for eyes and very sharp shaft for a beak. Ilya had become a spectacle-faced bird in his photo, one of those that had taken pity on Alice when she felt her most lost and alone in Wonderland. He didn’t look so much Mad as suddenly worried about whatever it was he saw, as if he was just about to entreat the viewer, beg her for something, when he was interrupted.Īnd while that was strange-even for a strange land-Alice quickly flipped to the next plate, eager to see what else there was. he was turned, as if something off camera had caught his eye. He must have been standing on a chair, because he loomed over a desk, his hands firmly placed on it as he leaned forward.īut. He wore a giant top hat with an equally giant tag that said in this style 10/6. The tea party, the songs! The riddles! And there he was, just as she remembered him: short, with a nose that took over his entire face and a head that was the size of his tiny body. “The Mad Hatter!” Alice practically screamed in delight as the memory came rushing back.
Willard, standing behind his desk, a pile of hats on either side, was most assuredly not himself. Willard, another of a little boy named Ilya, and a third of a pretty wind-shaped pine from the park, by the river. There were three photographs: one supposedly of Mr. She sprawled on her bed and ripped apart the neatly tied velvet knot. Would there be Hades to pay later? From her sister, and, reluctantly, her mother? Good luck with-whatever.” Alice nodded at the men and rushed up to her room. “Alice, you’re not leaving?” Mathilda said incredulously. “I beg your pardon,” Alice said, dipping a curtsy like the child she was accused of being. “Always checking the mail, too anxious to hear from friends who aren’t actually present, or what the news is-so busy with such intangible communication.” “My photographs!” Alice cried, leaping up joyfully and taking them.
Anderbee came back without any additional guests instead she carried Alice’s satchel and a small packet tied with ribbons. perhaps move further away from town,” she added reflectively.īut Mrs. “Perhaps I should be around to receive them more often. Check out a first excerpt of the book below: Unbirthday: A Twisted Tale hits shelves on Sept. Alice now returns to Wonderland, bent on stopping the queen and figuring out where she belongs in both worlds. It turns out that when Alice left Wonderland all those years ago, she didn’t.actually do anything about the Queen of Hearts, so the tyrant went on a murderous rampage throughout the land. While developing some photographs, she discovers the faces of the old friends from Wonderland popping up - and a mysterious dark-haired girl asking for her help. I think that’s part of : that she’s a very realistically drawn character that anchors all of the nonsense stuff that happens around her.”īraswell’s macabre Unbirthday: A Twisted Tale asks: What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late? The book follows Alice at age 18, a spirited young lady living in Victorian, England. It’s the sort of thing a little girl would say without realizing she was being rude to a mouse. Like when she’s telling the mouse Oh, we’ve got a pet cat back home and she loves catching little mice. “Sometimes she says things which might sound a little cruel, but they’re not. “The character of Alice is written - despite the unreality of the world she’s in, the character really comes across as a real nine year-old girl. “It’s like I’m stepping into a beloved Disney universe, but I’m also stepping into a beloved literary universe.”īraswell says Alice in Wonderland has stood the test of time, not just because of the fantastical worlds spun up by Carroll, but because of Alice herself. “Alice in Wonderland has a super fan base of over 100 years at this point,” she tells Polygon.
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Braswell has penned other entries in the Disney series, including the ones for The Little Mermaid, in which Ursula takes over the underwater kingdom, and Aladdin, in which Aladdin never finds the lamp, but when it came to Alice, she felt like she had to honor not only the Disney movie but the literary legacy.
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So when author Liz Braswell reimagined the fantasy for Disney’s Twisted Tales series - which posit dark, story-warping “what if”s on beloved animated movies - she felt some extra pressure. The classic Disney movie itself is, of course, a reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel. In the last half-century we’ve seen the Tim Burton live-action movies, American McGee’s horror video game, a Jefferson Airplane song, two operas, and John Craton’s ballet. Alice in Wonderland is no stranger to spinoffs, sequels, and reimagnings.
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