Alice's Adventures in Wonderland facts for kids
Title page of the original edition (1865)
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| Author | Lewis Carroll |
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| Illustrator | John Tenniel |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishers |
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Publication date
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26 November 1865 |
| Followed by | Through the Looking-Glass |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a children's novel. The title is usually shortened to Alice in Wonderland. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote the book. He wrote it using the pen name Lewis Carroll. John Tenniel drew the 42 pictures in the book. The book was published by Macmillan Publishers in London. It was released on 26 November 1865. It has been adapted to numerous movies.
Characters
- Alice (main character)
- The White Rabbit (always in a hurry)
- Dodo (stupid bird)
- Caterpillar (VERY wise and old)
- The Duchess
- Her Cook
- Cheshire Cat (knows the way through the wicked forest)
- Mad Hatter (funny and crazy as it seems, likes tea very much)
- March Hare (friend of the Mad hatters)
- Dormouse (friend of the Mad hatters)
- King, Queen, and Knave of Hearts (queen of heats and her guards with her husband)
- mock turtle
dinah(Alice's cat)
Story
The story starts with Alice sitting with her sister beside a lake. Suddenly, a white rabbit runs by. Alice runs after him. She finds his rabbit hole. She falls through the hole. She meets many characters underground and has some amazing adventures. She grows larger or smaller by eating different things like cakes and mushrooms. At the end, she enters a lovely garden. The Knave of Hearts is charged with stealing some tarts. A trial is held. Alice thinks the trial is ridiculous. She says so. Everyone is offended. There is a great commotion. Alice suddenly wakes up. She is back where she started, sitting with her sister beside the lake.
Background
The story was told on a summer outing to three little girls. One of them was named Alice Liddell. Alice asked Dodgson to write the story down. Dodgson accepted the task. It took two years.
The story was first called Alice's Adventures Under Ground. When Dodgson prepared the Alice story for publication, he added more events, such as the Mad Hatters's Tea Party, new characters, such as the Cheshire Cat, and changed the title to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The story was so popular that Dodgson, (under the pen name Lewis Carroll), wrote a sequel called Through the Looking-Glass. The Alice stories, often known as Alice in Wonderland, are popular in music, movies and plays.
Adaptations
The book has been adapted many times to movies and television. These adaptations include:
- Tim Burton's 2010 movie version, Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter.
- Director Jonathan Miller's 1962 version with Anne-Marie Mallik as Alice, Finlay Currie as Dodo, Sir Michael Redgrave as Caterpillar, and John Gielgud as Mock Turtle
- Disney's 1951 animated movie Alice in Wonderland with Kathryn Beaumont voicing Alice
Images for kids
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Page from the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, 1864
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The White Rabbit
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The Cheshire Cat
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Three cards painting the white rose tree red to cover it up from the Queen of Hearts (Coloured Tenniel illustration)
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Alice by John Tenniel, 1865
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Halloween costumes of Alice and the Queen of Hearts, 2015
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Maidie Andrews as Alice on the West End stage, c. 1903
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Production of Alice in Wonderland by the Kansas City Ballet in 2013
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See also
In Spanish: Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas para niños
