Alice in Wonderland

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Scholastic Inc., 2002 - Juvenile Fiction - 159 pages
Alice in Wonderland is one of the most popular, inviting, and adventurous stories of all time.

One normal summer day, Alice is sitting on the riverbank when a big, white, talking rabbit runs past. He pops into a big rabbit hole, and Alice follows him down, down, down into a strange and magical land.

Alice has many exciting adventures in this extraordinary place called Wonderland. Here, anything can happen: All the animals talk, a deck of cards comes to life, and everything gets curiouser and curiouser. This is the timeless tale of Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
 

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Contents

Down the RabbitHole
5
The Pool of Tears
16
A CaucusRace and a Long Tale
27
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
37
Advice From a Caterpillar
51
Pig and Pepper
63
A Mad TeaParty
78
The Queens CroquetGround
92
The Mock Turtles Story
107
The Lobster Quadrille
121
Who Stole the Tarts?
134
Alices Evidence
146
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About the author (2002)

Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898.