Alice and the Looking-Glass Quest available as academic e-book on LiveCarta

Michael Prasad and co-author Emma Y. have released Alice and the Looking-Glass Quest as an academic e-book on LiveCarta, extending their children’s book into a teaching tool for emergency management. The book blends Lewis Carroll’s public-domain story with preparedness concepts for instructors, families and students.

Why it matters: - Alice and the Looking-Glass Quest is designed to turn a classic children’s story into a practical entry point for emergency management education. - The e-book is aimed at academic instructors, but it also targets families and the public with lessons on preparedness, resilience and crisis response. - The release expands how emergency management can be taught outside traditional training settings.

What happened: - York Drive Publishing made Alice and the Looking-Glass Quest available as an e-book on LiveCarta.com for academic instructors. - The book is also available in paperback, hardcover and Kindle on Amazon. - The project comes from emergency management author Michael Prasad, MA, CEM®, and co-author Emma Y. - The book is the second children’s title from Michael Prasad and Emma Y. Their first book was Rusty the Emergency Management Cat.

The details: - Alice and the Looking-Glass Quest retells Lewis Carroll’s public-domain story through the lens of emergency management. - The book highlights collaboration, planning, hazard awareness, crisis communications, situational awareness, prevention, coordination, response, recovery, mitigation, cooperation and continuous improvement. - The academic e-book has three parts. - The first section offers an emergency management analysis that connects characters and scenes from the adaptation and Carroll’s original work to community preparedness and resilience. - The first section also uses doctrinal and conceptual allegories for academic study and preparedness planning. - The second section uses child-friendly language and newly generated Victorian-style pen-and-ink illustrations to show how Alice confronts threats and reduces the harmful effects of hazards. - The third section reproduces Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, which is in the public domain. - The structure lets readers compare the new story with the original. - Michael Prasad says the book can be used for comparative literature review, for analogous education on emergency management principles and practices, and to explain the range of emergency management experience in daily life.

Between the lines: - The project reflects a broader effort to make emergency management concepts feel accessible by tying them to familiar literature. - The book’s academic framing suggests York Drive Publishing is positioning the title as both a classroom resource and a public-facing learning tool. - The public-domain Carroll text gives the e-book a built-in comparison point that can support coursework and discussion.

What's next: - Educators can now adopt the e-book through LiveCarta.com for coursework and blended learning use. - The format may help Michael Prasad and York Drive Publishing reach additional readers in higher education, continuing education and community preparedness programs. - The book adds to York Drive Publishing’s catalog of emergency management-focused titles.