About this book

On a hot summer afternoon, bored beside her sister on a riverbank, Alice spots a White Rabbit in a waistcoat pulling a watch from his pocket and crying that he will be late. She follows him down a hole that turns out to be a tunnel into a country no map has drawn: a hall of doors, a pool of her own tears, a Caterpillar smoking on a mushroom, a Mad Tea-Party that never ends, a Queen who orders heads off as easily as ordering tea. Alice grows and shrinks, argues with sheep and kings, defends a stolen tart at a trial without evidence, and learns, between one impossible thing and another, that the strangest country in the world is the inside of a child's own mind. Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, retold in six clear chapters for a new generation of readers without losing a drop of its wit, its strangeness, or its quiet wisdom about growing up.

From the book

Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?” So she was…