Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

About the book

Following a hurried White Rabbit, Alice enters a place where the familiar rules of conversation and everyday life keep slipping away. Creatures offer advice that is difficult to follow, questions lead in circles, and attempts to behave sensibly can make a situation stranger still. Carroll builds the adventure from encounters rather than a single grand quest, giving each scene its own verbal puzzle and comic rhythm. Alice remains curious, sometimes impatient, and wonderfully ready to argue back. The story can be enjoyed for its odd companions and sudden surprises, or read more slowly for the way it plays with identity, authority, and the meanings of words. It invites readers to wonder without requiring every wonder to be explained.

• Curiosity
• Language and logic
• Identity

Why read it

For playful dialogue and imaginative surprises that remain rewarding beyond childhood.

English reading text