Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland is a book by Lewis Carroll that was published in 1865. I highly recommend this book to anybody who wants a book appropriate for school years 5-6 age 10, 11 and 12. It’s a book with understandable grammar, understandable and readable words and decently long with an interesting plot with multiple twists. Without further ado, let’s get into it.
It’s about a curious girl named Alice who follows a rabbit wearing a waistcoat through a rabbit hole. Little does Alice know that she is in a mystical wonderland!
Alice meets these crazy characters such as the Mad Hatter, The Duchess, The Queen of Hearts and others. Alice finds herself in water. She is confused because she had only been to the seaside once in her life and she didn’t live near any beaches. She thought it could have been the riverbank’s water until she realised that the water was salty.
She finds a palace that looks unusual, there are gardeners pruning trees and she hears talking in the distance. Basically, she sees the Queen of hearts and she’s chatting away. The queen notices Alice and she asks if Alice is good at crocheting. Alice says yes and attends this crochet fest thing and during the fest everyone is sitting quietly crocheting and there is a person sitting behind Alice and asks her, “What do you think of the Queen?” Alice replies, “I don’t really like her-” When Alice turns her head to actually make eye-contact with the person, she notices that the Queen was listening to their conversation. The Queen heard what Alice had said and had an angry frown on her face. Alice carried on speaking with, “-because she’s so likely to win the crochet fest/contest! I mean look at her needles go!” the Queen’s angry frown turned upside down into a happy face. Alice grew fearful of the Queen because every now and then she would hear the Queen shout, “OFF WITH THEIR HEAD!”
At the end of the book she’s talking to her sister about her mystical adventures in wonderland and falls asleep dreaming about wonderland. There was also this Mock turtle who sang some poems and one of them was beautiful soup, here are the lyrics: “Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Beautiful Soup!”
It’s an interesting song, I must say. The reason I like it is because I find soup tasty and when you ask people what their favorite food is, their most likely to say something like pizza or burgers or maybe even fish! But I’ve never met anyone who’s favorite food is soup so it really characterizes why it’s such an interesting song.
My favorite part in the book was definitely the beginning because it really shows how it all happened and how Alice got into this mess. The reason why I like the beginning so much is the vocabulary and the description is all rolled into one beautiful first few chapters that really gives you a way of picturing it in your head! Out of 10, I’ll give this story a solid 9 because of, like I already said, the amazing vocabulary and description, punctuation and all the other factors that this book provides for you! the reason I didn’t give it a 10 is because it does have some kind of boring bits in it like when she’s walking through the Queen of hearts garden and literally everything is the same. I love how it also makes it so people like myself can understand and read it without having to google what every single word means.
I would really recommend this book to anyone out there in the mystical world because personally, I found this book awe inspiring and convinced me to make my own stories more interesting and more crazy. I wish I could write like Lewis Carroll because the way he writes is just magical! As I’ve already said like 100 times, it’s genuinely AMAZING!! I always thought, “Oh, Alice In Wonderland is a book for babies and I’m way too old for it, gimme a different book!” But now that I’ve read this, it’s changed my entire way of looking at it and it’s brilliant I can’t say it enough!
Thanks for reading! BYE!!!