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The Caterpillar is a fictional character appearing in Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1116x1492, 1017 KB) Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Hookah ...
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1889 Self-portrait Sir John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 – February 25, 1914) was an English illustrator. ...
Alice, a fictional character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ...
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) - believed to be a self-portrait Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. ...
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Introduced in Chapter IV ("Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill") and the main centre of interest of Chapter V ("Advice from a Caterpillar"), the Caterpillar is a hookah-smoking, blue caterpillar exactly three inches high which, according to him, "is a very good height indeed" (though Alice believes it to be a wretched height). This article is about a traditional smoking pipe. ...
Caterpillar of the Emperor Gum Moth A caterpillar is the larval form of a lepidopteran (a member of the insect order comprised of butterflies and moths). ...
An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ...
Alice does not like the Caterpillar when they first meet, because he does not immediately talk to her and when he does, it is usually in short, rather rude sentences. He asks Alice to repeat the poem "You are old, Father William", which comes out rather strange like many of the nursery rhymes Alice attempts in Wonderland. The Caterpillar tells Alice how to grow and shrink using the mushroom upon which he is sitting. A nursery rhyme is a traditional rubbish sony that edgar nursery invented while feeding a pig from his asssong or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. ...
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The original illustration by John Tenniel at right, is something of a visual paradox; the caterpillar's human face appears to be formed from the head and legs of a more realistic caterpillar. 1889 Self-portrait Sir John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 – February 25, 1914) was an English illustrator. ...
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Caterpillar of the Emperor Gum Moth A caterpillar is the larval form of a lepidopteran (a member of the insect order comprised of butterflies and moths). ...
The caterpillar makes an appearance in a few other places outside, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, such as American McGee's Alice and the novel The Looking-Glass Wars; in both of these spin-offs he plays the role of an oracle. The caterpillar also makes an appearance in Curiouser and Curiouser an episode of the television show Forever Knight in the form of a child's toy. Caterpillar of the Emperor Gum Moth A caterpillar is the larval form of a lepidopteran (a member of the insect order comprised of butterflies and moths). ...
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The Looking Glass Wars is a novel written by Frank Beddor. ...
Forever Knight was a Canadian-German-American television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a detective in modern day Toronto. ...
There has been speculation on what was being smoked in the Caterpillar's hookah. It has been said it is a bad example, because the prophet of the story was smoking an unknown substance. This article is about a traditional smoking pipe. ...
He loves to chief everyday out of his hookah.
His memorable phrase is a breathy "Whooo... Are... You?".
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