Alice the Cat

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Tess constantly feels like she is going explode with rage and decides the only way to survive is run away with Alice. Author of the best-selling coming-of-age novel, Alice the Cat, Tim Cummings earned his MFA in Writing for Young People from Antioch University Los Angeles. A merger of galaxy groups in the constellation Ursa Major is nicknamed "Cheshire Cat galaxy group" by Astronomers due to its suggestive appearance.

Tim Cummings boldly serves up the complexities of being a tween, the challenges of grief, and the wonders of friendship in an outrageously original tale. the Cheshire Cat, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ A maddeningly challenging jigsaw puzzle to create an illustration of Alice’s memorable meeting with the Cheshire Cat, by John Tenniel for ‘The Nursery Alice’, 1890.I still can’t get my head around how on earth the litter we used for years became the one he simply hated!

The Cheshire Cat is now largely identified with the character of the same name in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The Cheshire Cat reprises its role from the 1951 film in this attraction, and appears as a floating head in a spiral of smoke in its climax.

Recent publications include works in F(r)iction, Scare Street, Lunch Ticket, Meow Meow Pow Pow, From Whispers to Roars, Drunk Monkeys, Hare’s Paw, and Critical Read/RAFT, for which he won the “Origins” essay contest. One theory for the origin of this saying involves the Cheshire cheese molds, another says that Cheshire was a county palatine. In Disney's 1951 animated film, Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is depicted as an intelligent and mischievous character that sometimes helps Alice and sometimes gets her into trouble. Together, with the help of old and new friends, Tessa sets out on an adventure to protect Alice while dealing with the grief of her mother’s passing and the uncertainty of her new family life, where everything seems to have been broken apart.Keep up with all the latest book-related goodies on our blog and interact with authors in our Twitter chats.