Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, SINGABLE!!

Posted by: Sing Books with Emily on: June 26, 2010

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice books are brimming with nonsensical poems and they are all singable. THRILLING!

Also thrilling are the library and bookstore shelves groaning under the weight of fabulously illustrated editions of
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.”

In the cabaret rooms of my mind, I feel a show comin’ on. Over time, I’ll explore about every one of these, but we’ll start with poem lists!

Here are the poems from
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

All in a Golden Afternoon
How Doth the Little Crocodile
Fury Said to a Mouse
You Are Old Father William
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
The Lobster Quadrille
‘Tis the Voice of the Lobster
Beautiful Soup
The Queen of Hearts
They Told Me You Had Been to Her

Here are the poems from
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Alice, Through the Looking Glass
Jabberwocky
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Humpty Dumpty
the Lion and the Unicorn
A-Sitting on a Gate (The White Knight)
Hush-a-by Lady, in Alice’s Lap
To the Looking-Glass World
First, the Fish Must be Caught
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky

Here are a few of the many amazing illustrations of the Alice Books,

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Alice in Wonderland
Written by Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

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Alice in Wonderland
Text and Poems by Lewis Carroll
Music by Various Artists
Illustrated by Maraja

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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Written by Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Words by Lewis Carroll
Poems Set to Music by Various Artists
Illustrated by Brigitte Bryan, Cover by Don Irwin

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The Annotated Alice (The Definitive Edition)
(Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass)
Written by Lewis Carroll
Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner
Illustrated by John Tenniel

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Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney’s)
Original Story by Lewis Carroll
Retold by Jon Scieszka
Illustrated with Art by Mary Blair

Plus, so many wonderful songs from Disney movies and stage plays have been written for the prose situations in the books like the Flower Garden (“Golden Afternoon“) and the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (“The Unbirthday Song“) and for characters including the White Rabbit (“I’m Late“) and the Caterpillar (“A-E-I-O-U“).

Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney’s Movie)
CD Recording
Story by Lewis Carrol
Songs with Words and Music by Bob Hilliard, Sammy Fain, Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston

Alice in Wonderland
Words by Lewis Carrol
Words and Music by Richard Hartley

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Original 1947 Broadway Cast)
Words by Lewis Carrol
Words and Music by Richard Addinsell

Alice in Wonderland
Words by Lewis Carroll
Words and Music by Stark Ravens

An interesting wiki article about the 1951 Disney movie, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1951_film)

An article about the movie from Disney,
http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/alice/alice.html

A huge resource of Alice and Lewis Carroll history, lore, and pictures, here:
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/

Find the SONGS FROM ALICE and music composed for them, here:

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Songs from Alice (Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)
Poems by Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by Charles Folkard
(This book, ISBN 0-7136-1959-7, includes Carroll’s poem texts and Folkard’s Illustrations)

Click here for a website sharing Folkard’s wonderful illustrations:
http://learning2share.blogspot.com/2008/02/charles-folkards-alice-in-wonderland.html

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Songs from Alice (Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)
Poems by Lewis Carroll
Music by Don Harper
Illustrated by Charles Folkard
(This book, ISBN 0-8234-0358-0, includes Carroll’s poem texts, printed music composed by Don Harper and Folkard’s Illustrations)