>Bring your own mushrooms

by Roger Sutton
Mar 09, 2010 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>Chelsey reviews the new Alice in Wonderland.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Uma Krishnaswami

>Deposed, that's the word. It was driving me crazy. Interesting review, though.

Posted : Mar 10, 2010 08:33

Anonymous

>Burton's take on Alice will be no surprise to anyone who saw his Sleepy Hollow. For better and worse, here is a guy who likes to put his source material through the grinder, not who wants to do right by Washington, Carroll, Tenniel, or anyone else.

Posted : Mar 10, 2010 04:32

dkm

>Amen re: "prophesized," the nonsense use of usurp, and knowing in advance of a film's deviation from the story.

The cinematic deviation from Where the Wild Things Are, however, was hard to swallow.

dkm

Posted : Mar 10, 2010 03:09

Lyle Blake Smythers

>Thanks for the perceptive and interesting review. It is the second online review I have seen today, and they both use the term "prophesize," which of course is not a real word. It makes me wonder if the movie itself uses the word and if these reviewers are picking the neologism up from studio promotional materials.
While I'm being a cranky old word coot, I might exhort your reviewer to look up "usurp," the meaning of which she does not appear to grasp accurately.
Otherwise, well done. I find it possible to swallow great liberties taken with great works when I know about such deviations in advance.

Posted : Mar 09, 2010 10:48

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