out loud every time Bruno said "welly" for "really" or "oo" for "you" or made precious little grammatical mistakes. For a true book lover, the appeal and visual presentation of the book is just right (the stories within contain the original illustrations by celebrated John Tenniel). Re-reading it as an adult though, there are so many themes that resonate with today, and the ‘madness’ of our own world, that Alice can be channelled in trying to deal with the world and society. Carroll financed the initial print run, possibly because it gave him more editorial authority than other financing methods. According to Gillian Beer, Carroll's play with language evokes the feeling of words for new readers: they "still have insecure edges and a nimbus of nonsense blurs the sharp focus of terms".

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are exactly as I remembered the films. Like the Goodreads sensation, JG Keely says a good children's book works for both adults and children and makes you think. Labelled "a dauntless, no-nonsense heroine" by The Guardian, the character of the plucky, yet proper, Alice has proven immensely popular and inspired similar heroines in literature and pop culture, many also named Alice in homage. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872.

Books for children in the Alice mould emerged as early as 1869 and continued to appear throughout the late 19th century. Alice participates in a croquet game, in which hedgehogs are used as balls, flamingos are used as mallets, and soldiers act as gates. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. The timeless classic built on themes of abandonment and loneliness en route to adulthood, Alice in Wonderland is a singular work of absurdity and madness. Attempting to extract her, The White Rabbit and his neighbors eventually take to hurling pebbles that turn into small cakes.

However, when the Queen demands that Alice be beheaded, Alice realizes that the characters are only a pack of cards, and she then awakens from her dream. Even without delving into the technicalities of the novel, one can enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland just because of the whimsical characters and simple story. According to Wilfrid Scott-Giles, the rose motif in Alice alludes to the English Wars of the Roses: red roses symbolised the House of Lancaster, while white roses symbolise their rival House of York.

Carroll began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version is lost.