Giving Voice: Interpreting texts for children. discussion

According to Wikipedia:
"Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Ca...

His works are fun rather similar in the way that the works of Dr Seuss are, though Carroll's settings seem rather more mature to me, and even more imaginative, if anything.

What makes his text so rich is the playing with context and the subversion of convention that Carroll manages to do with a virtuosity I have not seen matched since.

Carroll is sitting there on my shelf, but I read my twins Peter Pan and Pinnochio instead. Maybe I'll read Alice to my toddler sometime next year