A review by narflet
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

4.0

The poem is amazing, as always, but this edition gets marked down a star because Helen Oxenbury's illustrations really didn't fit for me. She's a fine artist, and her illustrations for both Alice books (published by Walker) were wonderful, but these ones aren't so great. They don't receive a particularly good treatment in this edition from the 70s, and could probably benefit from a refresh, and that doesn't help. But, really, I felt that they were just too pedestrian for such a glorious and nonsensical poem. I'm sure some will like them, and they're certainly not bad, they just weren't Snark enough for me.