Tea Party Kit Sale Extended Through 10/31, Only $24.99 While Supplies Last!!!

It is our belief that when the lazy afternoons of summer ends and a new school year arrives, it is the “pawfect” time for celebration! School bells are ringing for class to begin, as are cash registers for new clothes, books and computers.

The Storybook Tea Kit Company is keenly aware of this. Therefore, to help children transition from summertime to school time while lending help to parents, the price of  our tea party kit (Alice’s Pawfect Tea-Party™) will be only  $24.99* ** through the end of October (regular price $40.00).  This is the very same tea-party kit that was launched earlier this year, which so many of you have already read about (some have sampled too) on your favorite blog.

Alice’s Pawfect Tea-Party™ is a tea kit book complete with sumptuous chocolate, delectable cookies, candy cake and cinnamon herb tea, focusing on Chapter 7 from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Our tea party kit connect kids with classic literature the old fashioned way, allowing them to dream and experience the feel of a real book while having a spot of tea.

In the story, Alice returns from wonderland and guides you back down the rabbit hole. Together you will meet the Mad Hatter and all of Alice’s chums. She will explain what truly a “pawfect” tea-party is!

Click here to purchase your tea party kit today,

while supplies last!

**US purchases only                                                  *8.75% CA tax for residents.

**Offer expires October 31st, 2011                           *Shipping & Handling added.

 

Learning Through Alice In Wonderland

Major Themes

Growth into Adulthood

This theme is central to both books. Alice's adventures parallel the journey from childhood to adulthood. She comes into numerous new situations in which adaptability is absolutely necessary for success. She shows marked progress throughout the course of the book; in the beginning, she can barely maintain enough composure to keep herself from crying. By the end of the novel, she is self-possessed and able to hold her own against the most baffling Wonderland logic.

Size change

Closely connected to the above theme, size change is another recurring concept. The dramatic changes in size hint at the radical changes the body undergoes during adolescence. The key, once again, is adaptability. Alice's size changes also bring about a change in perspective, and she sees the world from a very different view. In the last trial scene, her growth into a giant reflects her interior growth. She becomes a much stronger, self-possessed person, able to speak out against the nonsensical proceedings of the trial.

Death

This theme is even more present in the second Alice book, Through the Looking Glass. Alice frequently makes references to her own death without knowing it. Childhood is a state of peril in Carroll's view: children are quite vulnerable, and the world presents many dangers. Another aspect of death is its inevitability. Since the Alice books are at root about change (the transition from childhood to adulthood, the passage of time), mortality is inescapable as a theme. Death is the final step of this process of growth. While death is only hinted at in the first book, the second book is saturated with references to mortality and macabre humor.

Alice's Pawfect Tea Party Kit Only $24.99 In September!

It is our belief that when the lazy afternoons of summer ends and a new school year arrives, it is the “pawfect” time for celebration! School bells are ringing for class to begin, as are cash registers for new clothes, books and computers.

The Storybook Tea Kit Company is keenly aware of this. Therefore, to help children transition from summertime to school time while lending help to parents, the price of  our tea party kit (Alice’s Pawfect Tea-Party™) will be only  $24.99* ** in the month of September (regular price $40.00).  This is the very same tea-party kit that was launched earlier this year, which so many of you have already read about (some have sampled too) on your favorite blog.

Alice’s Pawfect Tea-Party™ is a tea kit book complete with sumptuous chocolate, delectable cookies, candy cake and cinnamon herb tea, focusing on Chapter 7 from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Our tea party kit connect kids with classic literature the old fashioned way, allowing them to dream and experience the feel of a real book while having a spot of tea.

In the story, Alice returns from wonderland and guides you back down the rabbit hole. Together you will meet the Mad Hatter and all of Alice’s chums. She will explain what truly a “pawfect” tea-party is!

Click here to purchase your tea party kit today,

while supplies last!

**US purchases only                                                  *8.75% CA tax for residents.

**Offer expires September 30^th                                 *Shipping & Handling added.

Alice in Wonderland

Fifty years ago the child world was made glad by the appearance of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It is a universal story and so belongs to all time. It has never gone out of fashion and never will as long as children love wonder-stories and grown-ups have young hearts.

But those who read the book when it was first published found in it a delight which the child of today misses. Fifty years ago certain poems appeared in every reader and were read over and over again until the child was stupid indeed who did not unconsciously learn them by heart. Today there is a new fashion in literature. Children are whirled from one supplementary reader to another, conning graceful rhymes and pretty stories all illustrated with artistic pictures, but the old things have passed away.

All the poems in Alice in Wonderland are parodies upon these once familiar rhymes. Scattered lines of the poems cling to the minds of older people; they remember being once familiar with them; they recognise the metre and can sometimes repeat two or three opening lines, but the complete poem eludes them, and the author they probably never did know. The children of today do not know the verses at all, and as a parody ceases to be a parody without the original poem as a background, the trouble of gathering these originals seems worth while.

After Alice had fallen down the rabbit-hole and had passed through her first transformation, when she shut up like a telescope until she was only ten inches high and then grew bigger and bigger until ‘her head struck the roof of the hall’, she became confused as to her identity. To make sure of it, she tried to repeat a little poem which everybody in those days knew by heart, and to such children is was very funny when it cam out all wrong and she says,

How Doth The Little Crocodile
Lewis Carroll

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!

September Tea Party Kit Sale: Visit Wonderland For Only $24.99!

It is our belief that when the lazy afternoons of summer ends and a new school year arrives, it is the “pawfect” time for celebration! School bells are ringing for class to begin, as are cash registers for new clothes, books and computers.

The Storybook Tea Kit Company is keenly aware of this. Therefore, to help children transition from summertime to school time while lending help to parents, the price of  our tea party kit (Alice’s Pawfect Tea-Party™) will be only  $24.99* ** in the month of September (regular price $40.00).  This is the very same tea-party kit that was launched earlier this year, which so many of you have already read about (some have sampled too) on your favorite blog.

Alice’s Pawfect Tea-Party™ is a tea kit book complete with sumptuous chocolate, delectable cookies, candy cake and cinnamon herb tea, focusing on Chapter 7 from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Our tea party kit connect kids with classic literature the old fashioned way, allowing them to dream and experience the feel of a real book while having a spot of tea.

In the story, Alice returns from wonderland and guides you back down the rabbit hole. Together you will meet the Mad Hatter and all of Alice’s chums. She will explain what truly a “pawfect” tea-party is!

Click here to purchase your tea party kit today,

while supplies last!

**US purchases only                                                  *8.75% CA tax for residents.
**Offer expires September 30^th                                 *Shipping & Handling added.

Making Homework More Fun

Throwing a tea party in the after-school mix with help sustain attention span for children's homework!