Curiouser...

The latest addition to my Alice collection is a recently published volume from the Disney studios which collects together the conceptual designs of Mary Blair which were later worked into the classic Disney animation. I intend to discuss the art more fully later but one thing that immediately struck me is the curious lack of the name "Lewis Carroll" involved with the book. There is a passing mention on the flyleaf ("THE FANTASTICAL TALE...has delighted children since Lewis Carroll wrote it...) but otherwise... nothing.

The front cover declares it to be "WALT DISNEY'S Alice In Wonderland retold by JON SCIESZKA, Pictures by MARY BLAIR.
The back cover, besides the ISBN, carries only the words "Alice, curious as ever, did exactly what you would do." The imprint page carries a great deal of copyright information but fails to mention Carroll at all.

I'm absolutely certain that it complies with every necessary bit of the law (Disney lawyers will have pored over it into the wee small hours to make sure of that) and the retelling is... well we'll discuss that later too, but I'd have thought it would have been a courtesy to at least put the original author's name on the cover.