‘She’s grown a good deal’ was her first remark. The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more. Alice looked round eagerly, and found that it was the Red Queen. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted. When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red Queen. When Alice enters the bizarre dimension of Wonderland and later steps into the alternate realm of Wonderland, the Looking Glass, she finds it harder and harder to maintain her composure and keep her patience because of all the poppycock and nonsense that occurs in these strange, undiscovered places. Join Alice on her weird and wonderful journey, where nothing is quite as it seems. You never know where you'll find yourself in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, introduced by Chris Riddell.
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