Items matching illustrations for children taken from Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice holds the White King

Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, ‘Why, you’ll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. I’d far better help you, hadn’t I?’ B [...]

Keywords: alice, chess, games, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-05-16

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Rocking-Horse Fly

“All right,” said the Gnat: “Half way up that bush, you’ll see a Rocking-horse-fly, if you look. It’s made entirely of wood, and gets about by swinging itself from branch to branch.” “What does it li [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, insects, mythical creatures, toys, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2009-09-06

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The Red Queen and the Red King

‘Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,’ Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), ‘and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel – and here are t [...]

Keywords: people, chess, alice, games, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-05-05

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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...]

Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-02-19

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Alice talks to the Kitten

“Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,” Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, “when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting y [...]

Keywords: people, furniture, chairs, relaxing, alice, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-02-20

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A Great Huge Game of Chess

For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it f [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, games, chess, trees

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Added: 2007-10-01

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Into the Looking Glass Room

Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I de [...]

Keywords: people, mirrors, alice, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-03-24

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The black kitten with a ball of twine

The kitten has a ball of wool or a ball of string (“twine” in the text might be either, except that later it’s referred to as “worsted” and is thus wool.) But the black kitten had been finished with e [...]

Keywords: cats, animals, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-02-19

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In the Train

“Tickets, please!” said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, transport, railways, people

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Added: 2008-04-14

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Alice pushes through the mirror

Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I de [...]

Keywords: people, mirrors, alice, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-03-31

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The White Knight is Sliding Down the Poker

Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which ca [...]

Keywords: alice, chess, games, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-06-14

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Alice in the Garden of Live Flowers

Alice (of Alice in Wonderland fame) is standing in the garden, where she is astonished to notice that the flowers (which have faces) can talk: This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, flowers

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Added: 2007-07-17

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