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A review by pewterwolf
Return to Wonderland by Patrice Lawrence, Lauren St. John, Pamela Butchart, Swapna Haddow, Amy Wilson, Chris Smith, Robin Stevens, Peter Bunzl, Piers Torday, Lisa Thompson, Maz Evans
5.0
Can't decide to give it a four star or a five star... But I had a blast with this so am going to round up to five (am on a roll with awesome collections of short stories, following the ace [b:Proud|41553972|Proud|Juno Dawson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1535453542s/41553972.jpg|64831833]!)
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Review taken from The Pewter Wolf which will be going up in early May 2019.
***eProof gifted by UK Publisher, PanMacMillan via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review/reaction.***
In this collection of stories (written by - hang on, deep breath time! - [a:Peter Bunzl|8339835|Peter Bunzl|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1455532477p2/8339835.jpg], [a:Pamela Butchart|7219091|Pamela Butchart|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Maz Evans|15605115|Maz Evans|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Swapna Haddow|15179138|Swapna Haddow|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Patrice Lawrence|646810|Patrice Lawrence|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1516131519p2/646810.jpg], [a:Chris Smith|9|Chris Smith|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Robin Stevens|476886|Robin Stevens|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Lauren St John|17971901|Lauren St John|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Lisa Thompson|15193868|Lisa Thompson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1532637084p2/15193868.jpg], [a:Piers Torday|6923558|Piers Torday|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1502293737p2/6923558.jpg] and [a:Amy Wilson|16042316|Amy Wilson|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]), we return to Wonderland and we ask, what happens in Wonderland without Alice? And the stories answer questions such as why does the Cheshire Cat grin so, has anyone barring Alice ever visited Wonderland, will the Mad Hatter ever host a sensible tea party and other questions…
This isn’t going to be long blog post/review/reaction. Sorry everyone, but I had such a blast reading this. I read this within four days and, if I had more time on my hands (and not had to do real life things, such as sleep, go to work, drive places, etc), I would have read this so much faster. All of the stories within these were delightful and a joy.
There was one or two I feel that could easily be turned into much longer stories/novellas (Ina Out of Wonderland by Robin Stevens and The Knave of Hearts by Lisa Thompson), and others that were perfectly compacted (Patrice Lawerence’s Roll of Honour).
I did like the stories, but there are a few I didn’t warm to as quickly as the others. But, with any collection of short stories, this will happen so I wasn’t too worried. Plus, it was nice to read stories from authors I have never heard of before and have made mental notes to check out.
But I think young fans of Alice in Wonderland will enjoy reading this collection of middle-grade tales. I do hope we have another collection similar to this in the near future, either from Wonderland or maybe Oz…
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Review taken from The Pewter Wolf which will be going up in early May 2019.
***eProof gifted by UK Publisher, PanMacMillan via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review/reaction.***
In this collection of stories (written by - hang on, deep breath time! - [a:Peter Bunzl|8339835|Peter Bunzl|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1455532477p2/8339835.jpg], [a:Pamela Butchart|7219091|Pamela Butchart|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Maz Evans|15605115|Maz Evans|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Swapna Haddow|15179138|Swapna Haddow|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Patrice Lawrence|646810|Patrice Lawrence|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1516131519p2/646810.jpg], [a:Chris Smith|9|Chris Smith|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Robin Stevens|476886|Robin Stevens|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Lauren St John|17971901|Lauren St John|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], [a:Lisa Thompson|15193868|Lisa Thompson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1532637084p2/15193868.jpg], [a:Piers Torday|6923558|Piers Torday|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1502293737p2/6923558.jpg] and [a:Amy Wilson|16042316|Amy Wilson|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]), we return to Wonderland and we ask, what happens in Wonderland without Alice? And the stories answer questions such as why does the Cheshire Cat grin so, has anyone barring Alice ever visited Wonderland, will the Mad Hatter ever host a sensible tea party and other questions…
This isn’t going to be long blog post/review/reaction. Sorry everyone, but I had such a blast reading this. I read this within four days and, if I had more time on my hands (and not had to do real life things, such as sleep, go to work, drive places, etc), I would have read this so much faster. All of the stories within these were delightful and a joy.
There was one or two I feel that could easily be turned into much longer stories/novellas (Ina Out of Wonderland by Robin Stevens and The Knave of Hearts by Lisa Thompson), and others that were perfectly compacted (Patrice Lawerence’s Roll of Honour).
I did like the stories, but there are a few I didn’t warm to as quickly as the others. But, with any collection of short stories, this will happen so I wasn’t too worried. Plus, it was nice to read stories from authors I have never heard of before and have made mental notes to check out.
But I think young fans of Alice in Wonderland will enjoy reading this collection of middle-grade tales. I do hope we have another collection similar to this in the near future, either from Wonderland or maybe Oz…