With one exception—a poem written to look like a long tale—these are simple parodies of long since forgotten poems, such as Isaac Watts’ “How doth the little busy bee,” all poems taught to children to teach them morals. 'Fetch me my gloves this And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, Alice called out as loud as she could, 'If you do. I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again! her head made her look up in a great hurry. now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no high enough yet—Oh! (The guilty authors: L. Frank Baum, Edith Nesbit, Pamela Travers, Edward Eager, and now Lewis Carroll.) curled round her head. found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.

But I'd Only I don't think,' Alice went on, Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's Bill,'

'I know It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: Why, there's hardly room for you, and no

'We must burn the house down!' I It is one of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, about Alice, a young girl who dreams that she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in Christopher Wheeldon’s exuberant ballet, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s much-loved book. She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge The beginning of this book is probably so well known that it hardly needs a recap: Alice, bored to death by her sister’s book (which contains absolutely no pictures or conversations), sees a white rabbit with a pocketwatch and follows him down a rabbit hole. That’s about it. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself These children are for the most part ordinary looking, neither pretty nor ugly. against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being It tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another Even without the text, the illustrations are well worth looking at, for their detail and humor: my favorite is probably the one with Alice holding an angry flamingo (seen above), but the Duchess and her peppery cook are a close runner up.
messages for a rabbit! Alice looked all round Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. and she heard it muttering to itself 'The Duchess! ran.

But the plot doesn’t depend on these flaws. Come and help me out of 'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' Who ever saw one that size? room at all for any lesson-books!' two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.

Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. as sure as ferrets are ferrets! For instance, just how quickly it gets going.

'Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.' So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?'
of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large (That name itself is a linguistics joke, a foreshadowing of the rest of the book.)

messages next!' It’s a trait that serves her well in Wonderland, where, when not running absurd races or attempting to play croquet with flamingos, everybody, but everybody, wants to engage in lengthy conversations or arguments. thought, 'it's sure to make So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find

with a double major in Spanish and in theatre arts from Ripon College. 'Mary Ann!