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Daisy Lily | 01:15 Wed 16th Feb 2005 | How it Works
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I would love to find the following books; one called Marigold in Godmothers House?, written by Joyce Lankaster Brisley (who wrote the Milly-Molly-Mandy stories).  The other was a book my mother had as a child, so it has to be printed in the 20's- 30's. I only remember the glorious illustrations and the story about  a shop where the assistant turned into a talking sheep.

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One book where the shop assistant turns into a sheep is Alice through the Looking Glass, but if it is the illustrations that are inportant, you would need to find the right edition

Ps the best website that i have found for buying old books is Abe , http://www.abebooks.co.uk

"The Annotated Alice" (available from Amazon for  �6.99 + p&p) has both Alice stories with their original Tenniel illustrations and marginal notes edited by Martin Gardner. ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140289291/qid=1109702178/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-8208304-4406006 )
I like it because the annotations explain things that Victorian readers would know but not modern ones.  For example you would recognize that "Twinkle, twinkle little bat" is a parody of "Twinkle, twinkle little star".  But the original version of "How does the little crocodile"?  It's in the margin, a nursery poem famous when Alice was created. 

Or you can just enjoy the stories without bothering with the exta bits.

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