Wonderland By Tommy Kovac

Reading Level: 4-6

Genre: Fantasy

This is a graphic novel addition to the Alice in Wonderland family.  This version follows the story of Mary Ann, the White Rabbit's personal maid after Alice has left Wonderland.  Mary Ann is thrust into this crazier than normal Wonderland as the heir apparent to Alice's rebel throne, although Mary Ann missed the whole Alice uprising against the Queen of Hearts.

This book is a graphic novel but it is also a fresh take on a classic fairytale which I think open up this story to many activity ideas.  I think that a great activity to do with this book would be to have my students choose a fairytale and have rewrite it. They could write it from a different perspective, they could change the ending, they could do whatever they wanted as long as when they were finished the reader was still able to tell from which fairytale the story was based and it keeps the characteristics of a fairytale.  Then they would have to illustrate their rewritten stories in the style of a graphic novel.  If the stories were long then they might only have to illustrate one section but if the stories were short enough they could illustrate the whole thing.