Homespun: Tales from America's Favorite Storytellers

By Jimmy Neil Smith

Book Overview

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. Life gets strange when Alice sees a white rabbit wearing a coat and gloves. thens he follows him down a hole. Suddenly she grows smaller, larger, smaller, larger, smaller--and almost drowns in her own tears-- She meets a Dodo, a Lizard, a smoking Caterpillar, a Duchess...a Cat without a grin. Then a grin without a Cat. She has a mad tea party with a Hatter and a Hare. And a madder croquet game with a King--where playing card soldiers are the hoops, flamingoes are the mallets, hedgehogs are the balls and the Queen of Hearts cries "Off with their heads!" Which lands Alice, the Mock Turtle, and a Gryphon (a what ?) at a trial without rules where death is the penalty! In Wonderland, anything can happen-- And probably anything will...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517569361
• ISBN13: 9780517569368
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.3" x 6.4"