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Alice in Blunderland

John Kendrick Bangs · 1907

Explore the age guidance, content cautions, positive qualities, and supporting notes for Alice in Blunderland by John Kendrick Bangs. This book is content notes include Strong language, Frightening scenes, Products & advertising; positive qualities include Creativity & curiosity, Positive messages.

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Recommended ageNot listed

Strongest cautions

  • Strong language2/5
  • Frightening scenes1/5
  • Products & advertising1/5

Strongest positives

  • Creativity & curiosity4/5
  • Positive messages3/5
  • Educational value2/5

What’s in it?

Products & advertising1/5
Why this rating?

No commercial products featured.

Strong language2/5
Why this rating?

Uses dated, polite language appropriate for the era.

Frightening scenes1/5
Why this rating?

Features mild, surreal tension typical of the genre.

Violence1/5
Why this rating?

Contains brief, non-graphic, whimsical conflicts common in surreal nonsense literature.

What’s good in it?

Courage & resilience1/5
Why this rating?

Alice displays curiosity and resilience while exploring an confusing landscape.

Creativity & curiosity4/5
Why this rating?

Inventive wordplay, nonsense situations and transformation of a familiar fantasy world are central to the book’s appeal.

Educational value2/5
Why this rating?

Serves as an introduction to the concepts of political satire and allegory.

Kindness & empathy2/5
Why this rating?

Manners, social behavior and occasional cooperation matter, but kindness is not a central focus of the absurd satire.

Positive messages3/5
Why this rating?

Provides social commentary on government inefficiency and civic duty.

Good role models2/5
Why this rating?

Alice is portrayed as an inquisitive and observational character.

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  1. What was the most imaginative idea in the story, and what would you add to it?
  2. Why do you think the characters used the language they did? Did it change how you saw them?
  3. Which choice in Alice in Blunderland would you have made differently, and why?
  4. Who changed the most in Alice in Blunderland, and what caused that change?
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