Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Synopsis:

This is a children’s fiction book about a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world called Wonderland full of unusual creatures including the White Rabbit, the Mouse, the Dodo, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Queen of Hearts, and the King of Hearts. It is full of verbal word play and puns. Mathematics and logic are also very important throughout Alice in Wonderland. It is an example of the literary nonsense genre.

Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and finds a bottle labeled “Drink me” which makes her smaller and a cake labeled “Eat me” which makes her larger. She meets a variety of creatures throughout the story who are all for the most part very hostile towards Alice and not very helpful towards her in her goal in getting back home and out of Wonderland.

Eventually, Alice wakes up and discovers that she was dreaming and is sitting by the riverbank with her sister.

Review:

I loved this book and love the character of Alice and her sense of curiosity.

“For, you, see, so many out-of-the way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”

“At least I knew who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”