Alice in Crazyland is a witty and humorous fantasy tale for young readers in which the heroine is the 12-year-old Alice Jumper, a girl with three degrees who wants to get her PhD before she’s 15. When she had returned from Wonderland she jumped after her uncle, professor Jumper, straight into a mountain lake, even though he was very clear that he didn’t want her with him. As soon as they are washed ashore on an unknown island, she insists on becoming his assistant …
A fantasy tale, subtitled as an “ecological farce”, that deals with questions about the end of the world, post-human society and ecological catastrophe. The story also shows optimism, suggesting that children as researchers can be the initiators of progress.
