Massimiliano Longo. Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie

Massimiliano Longo draws a more mature Alice, a teenager who lives the adventure in Wonderland with a higher consciousness, without  loosing the freshness of childhood of Lewis Carroll's Alice. The drawings, made by simple pencil lines, represent scenes rich in details which become almost  photographic pictures in the colour plates. The whole characters are very realistic to confirm the idea that at the end of the Rabbit hole begins a Wonderland as real as our land.

Emma Chichester Clark. Alice in Wonderland.

A merry brigade keeps company to Alice in her games and adventures in the backyard. Emma Chichester Clark gives to  younger readers as well as to grown ups, a joyful and amusing story set in a world full of things to discover. The bright colours and the appealing illustrations of the English author transform Lewis Carroll's classic in a contemporary tale in which dreams and reality are the same thing.

Rébecca Dautremer. Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie.

In the interpretation of the french artist Rébecca Dautremer, Alice experiences an adventure which lasts the time of a dream in a land with a gloomy atmosphere. The calm and the silence reign for the whole narration and the noisy Caucus Race lowers its tone. It seems as if the chatter was absorbed by the surrounding waters. To break this peace, the artist introduces some unexpected events which leave the audience out of breath. The viewer, in fact, without notice, is catapulted into the scene or thrown out of it by a refined and unusual perspective.

Shelagh McNicholas. Alice in Wonderland.

Shelagh McNicholas' illustrations recreate a Wonderland of delicate atmospheres. The colours, soft and bright at the same time, thanks to the watercolour technique, live with a cool pencil drawing which emerges from the painting and often shows the construction marks of figures and scenes. In this way the illustrator obtains pictures with a strong sense of dynamism combined with a light and graceful atmosphere. Even the characters are loving and  happy and it seems that they accompany the reader to a country adventure that takes place near a wood in the English countryside.

Emanuele Luzzati. Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie.

Emanuele Luzzati gives us the happiest, the funniest and the perkiest Alice. Through a series of plates made with mixed media such as collage, etching and painting, Luzzati  creates his own Wonderland. This is a world which joins tradition, popular colture, fairy atmosphere and childhood imaginary. The colours are bright and the joyful atmosphere receives a cheerful Alice, almost naive, who has a big smile printed on a round face coloured by two red cheeks.

Edizioni Anarchismo. Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie.

In every edition of Wonderland we meet a new Alice, but in the Edizioni Anarchismo's edition there is not a trace of the English little girl. She doesn't appear neither in the text nor in the pictures. Alice and Wonderland, in fact, in this little book, are transformed in a sort of symbol or, to be precise, metaphor of the struggle for national liberation.