The Hunting of the Snark Wonderland", and mentions of "candle-ends" and "toasted cheese" with his supernatural poem "Phantasmagoria". Additionally all three works include the number "42". Another of Carroll's children's novels, "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded" (1893) makes a reference to the Boojum. Other illustrators of "The Hunting of the Snark" include Peter Newell (1903), Edward A. Wilson (1932), Mervyn Peake (1941), Aldren Watson (1952), Tove Jansson (1959), Helen Oxenbury (1970), Byron Sewell (1974), John Minnion (1974), Harold Jones (1975), Ralph Steadman (1975), Quentin Blake (1976), Frank Hinder (1989) and Brian Puttock (1997). "The Hunting of the Snark" has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre,
Lewis Carroll opera, theatre, plays and music. Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti reputedly became convinced that the poem was about him. In 1895, 30 years after publication of his masterpieces, Carroll attempted a comeback, producing a two-volume tale of the fairy siblings Sylvie and Bruno. Carroll entwines two plots set in two alternative worlds, one set in rural England and the other in the fairytale kingdoms of Elfland, Outland, and others. The fairytale world satirizes English society, and more specifically the world of academia. "Sylvie and Bruno" came out in two volumes and is considered a lesser work, although it has remained in