by Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. Three years before this date Charles rowed a boat up the Isis on the 4th July 1862 with Reverend Robinson Duckworth, Lorina Charlotte Liddell, Alice Pleasance Liddell and Edith Mary […]
Category: Children’s Fiction
Schools out! | Our favourite children’s books
Here at World of Rare Books, it is very hard to decide an ultimate favourite children’s book. With such a vast array of nostalgic stories to fall back into, we are ready to open the treasure chest to reveal a selection of our favourites. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or commonly shortened […]
Author Focus | Arthur Ransome
Here at World of Rare Books, we love to focus on the interesting lives of the greatest authors that this world has offered us. This year marks 50 years without this great children’s author who is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series. Arthur Ransome was the son of Cyril and Edith Ransome, […]