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Description
Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole without giving a thought about how she might get out. And so she tumbles into Wonderland: where animals answer back, a baby turns into a pig, time stands still at a disorderly tea party, croquet is played with hedgehogs... read more
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Summary
A little girl named Alice is getting read to by her sister when all of a sudden she sees a little rabbit and chases it down a rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland. She learns from many different animals how to treat people and to think before she acts. She finally bumps into a cat... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Alice: Young, little, blonde, nieve, immature
- White habbit: White, has a clock, waste jacket
- Bill, the lizard: small green and suit
- Mouse: sensative and small and new how to swim
- Lory: Add a description of this character.
- Eaglet
- Duck
- Dodo
- Duchess: ugly and the queen hates her
- Cheshire cat: invisible sometimes and very smart and tricky
- Mad Hatter: the man who has a tea party all the time with the dormouse
- Dormouse: always tired
- The Queen of hearts: mean, fat, owns the garden
- The Knave of hearts: tiny and a pushover and married to the queen
- Mock turtle: always sad and has lots of stories
Memorable Quotes
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“One side makes you grow taller, one side makes you grow smaller.”
Caterpillar -
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Alice
First Sentence
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?"1
Table of Contents
1. Down the Rabbit-Hole
2. The Pool of Tears
3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
5. Advice from a Caterpillar
6. Pig and Pepper
7. A Mad Tea-Party
8. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
9. The Mock Turtle's Story
10. The Lobster Quadrille
11. Who Stole the Tarts?
12. Alice's Evidence
Through the Looking Glass
1. Looking-glass House
2. The Garden of Live Flowers
3. Looking-glass Insects
4. Tweeledum and Tweedledee
5. Wool and Water
6. Humpty Dumpty
7. The Lion and the Unicorn
8. "It's My Own Invention"
9. Queen Alice
10. Shaking
11. Waking
12. Which Dreamed It?
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