The Snark Puzzle Book by Martin Gardner
Based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky
With the original illustrations by Henry Holiday and Sir John Tenniel This book contains the entire poems listed above, the illustratiosn, and 75 riddles/ puzzles. The riddles contain: general mind teasers adapted to the nonsense world of Lewis Carroll, reading comprehension, neat points ertaining to the illustration, comparison of the two poems, and some problems easily solvable with algebra. The level of the puzzles is generally around the level of someone on an eighth grade reading and math level. The poems and illustrations themselves are nice.
The Jabberwocky is much more cryptic and nonsensical than
The Hunting of the Snark. The questions are all asked opposite parts of the Snark, with the Jabberwocky in the back of the book. Answers to all but one puzzle(that one being the maze), are included in the back of the book.
Happy solving.
