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"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.
Jabberwocky is an illustrated version of Lewis Carroll's poem of the same name. The book is illustrated by Canadian artist Stéphane Jorisch . It was published in 2004 by Kids Can Press and won the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language children's illustration.
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In 2013, Sourcebooks acquired the book publisher Simple Truths. [11] The company reported a 20% gain in sales in 2014, with particular gains from its Jabberwocky children's imprint and Fire young adult imprint. The results also included sales of more than two million picture books by Marianne Richmond. [6]
Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse. These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech.
A Jabberwocky sentence is a type of sentence of interest in neurolinguistics. Jabberwocky sentences take their name from the language of Lewis Carroll's well-known poem " Jabberwocky ". In the poem, Carroll uses correct English grammar and syntax, but many of the words are made up and merely suggest meaning.
Articles relating to the poem Jabberwocky (1871) by Lewis Carroll and its adaptations. Pages in category "Jabberwocky" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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