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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg align=\"right\" alt=\"Adolf in Blunderland. \" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/EN\/New\/PublishingImages\/adolf_blunderland_170x240.jpg\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"5\" style=\"border: 0px solid; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"140\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAlice in Wonderland\u003C\/i\u003E is one of my favourite books and I love coming across it in any guise - from the Swahili version I encountered on the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/elisikatikanchiy00carrrich\"\u003EInternet archive library\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to the Mervyn Peake-illustrated edition which was the star of the University of Sheffield Library's exhibit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.shef.ac.uk\/library\/exhibition\/alice\"\u003EMervyn Peake’s Alice\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a few years ago. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EYou can imagine, therefore, how intrigued I was to come across an old, cardboardy book called \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1547556\"\u003EAdolf in Blunderland\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Ein the Central City Library basement. The cover bears a caricature of Adolf Hitler in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit looking up at a giant caterpillar with Neville Chamberlain’s head, moustache, top hat and all, as he sits on a mushroom with a cap that resembles a map of the world. The Caterpillar is clearly about to offer Adolf a chance to take a bite out of it, just as the real Chamberlain did.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe book was published in Great Britain in 1939 and donated to the library by a Mr Griffiths in 1984. The authors are James Dyrenforth and Max Kester, James Dyrenforth being a noted lyricist of the 1930s and 40s who wrote the sorts of songs that are recorded by musicians with nicknames and their own orchestras, such as \"Skitch Henderson and his orchestra\".\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EThe parodies of the Alice poems in this book are, in fact, very clever:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\"You are old, Kaiser Wilhelm,\" young Adolf said,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\"And your famous moustache now falls flat…\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003Eor\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E'Twas the voice of the Fuehrer ! I heard him declare,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\"If you want a good massacre, bomb from the air…\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EHowever, the best moment for me in the whole book is the tea party, where the March Hare has become \"March Into\", and the Mad Hatter is the \"Flatterer\". And the dormouse? Read on:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EMarch Into: No room! No room!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAdolf: There's plenty of room.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EFlatterer: Only if we annex Hungary, as the great March Into suggests.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EDoormat (weakly): Germany is hungry.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780007338092\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780007338092\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"200\" width=\"129\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAt the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival this month, I was lucky to get a chance to interview Sir Max Hastings, author of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2617644\"\u003EAll Hell let loose\u003C\/a\u003E (a history of World War II that Hamish Keith thinks is the best ever written) along with many other fine books, including a funny memoir of his dysfunctional childhood I'm reading right now, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2474617\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDid you really shoot the television? A family fable\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.  I took \u003Ci\u003EAdolf in Blunderland\u003C\/i\u003E along to show him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI told him about how when I found it, I was delighted by its cleverness, but after I'd finished reading it, it didn't seem as much fun as I had thought. Hastings said, kindly, \"Yes, parodies usually aren't as successful out of their times\", but that wasn't what I meant. It wasn't that the style was anachronistic - it was the story itself, and knowing, unlike the authors, how it would end: the carnage and the millions dead.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 4px;\"\u003EIt occurred to me that writing a parody like this, for two Englishmen, was a bit like when I used to write poems about my sadistic high school science teacher, likening him to a turtle, or a camel, as the mood struck me. It's not the last laugh, it's what you have instead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.booktryst.com\/2010\/04\/200-rabbit-holes-await-at-canadian_05.html\"\u003ERead this post on Booktryst\u003C\/a\u003E about an outstanding collection - nearly 500 books - of \"Wonderlandia\" at the University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections Department. Yes, \u003Ci\u003EAdolf in Blunderland\u003C\/i\u003E is there.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 4px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3303360366573766534\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/treasure-from-basement.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3303360366573766534"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3303360366573766534"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/treasure-from-basement.html","title":"Adolf in Blunderland: a treasure from the basement"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});