Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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Summary: Simply wonderful.
Review: I have met people who have told me that they didn't understand "Alice in Wonderland". I feel sorry for them. They are missing out on a wonderful world that has and will endure forever. I first discovered Alice from the Walt Disney animated movie (an excellent version), and simply had to read the book, as soon as my Mom told me that it was a book (I was in Grade Two at the time). I can't really find the right words to describe it, so all I can say is read it for yourself and you'll never regret your journey to Wonderland.

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Summary: A wonderful book for any age!
Review: I thought this book was very interesting, and can be seen on many levels. How many other childrens stories are studied by theorists and philosophers?

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Summary: Take a walk with the dream child.
Review: If you long to be carried away to a world of nonsense and magic, talking beasts and flowers then Alice is the best tour guide you can employ. This is a book that will find a place close to the heart of a reader of any age that has a place inside reserved for whimsy and childlike wonder. As Alice travels through Wonderland and meets many unexpected characters your imagination will soar. Run a race with a dodo bird. Have tea with the doremouse and his friends the mad hatter and the march hare. Thrill at the "Jabberwocky". Alice proves to be a very level headed young lady indeed as she encounters things that become "curiouser and curiouser!" The story meanders through forests and chessboards that are life size never ceasing to amaze the reader with charm and wit. Lewis Carroll completed a masterpiece of fantasy and social comentary in this classic tale. The book is truly a gift to any one who hopes to hold onto childhoods magic.

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Summary: I LOVED IT...IT TAKES YOUR IMAGINATION TO ITS LIMITS!!!
Review: I read the book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and I really enjoyed reading it. Lewis Carroll is a magnificant author and the story he writes is wonderful. Alice is a little girl who journeys to a magical land where everything is full of non-sense. She incounters many people and creatures along the way. She is told many stories and riddles while she travels through wonderland. My favorite thing throughout the story, was when Alice kept saying that she would have to write a book about this place when she got home. Even though it was a dream, Alice still loves her world of non-sense.

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Summary: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland can enrich young and old.
Review: It is almost certain, that many of you reading this will take a glance, and conclude that I am some poor, lost soul, making sad attempts to hold on to my youth through this book. That is an admission I will freely make, with the exception that this story paints a picture so colorfully fantastic, I can be drawn to a time that may have held different joys without any threat to my own sense of self or dignity, because it is at the same time oddly dark and fraught with harsh reality, in ever more curious forms throughout. If anyone questions this Philosophy, I highly recommend that you take the time to read Alice's first adventure, because I believe you'll be tumbling through the looking glass of your own accord in no time at all as a result of it

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Summary: Who needs Shakespeare OR the Bible?
Review: I first read of Alice and her adventures when most of us did -- too long ago to mention. And I have re-read it at least once a year since. I'm not interested in why it was written or what deep, dark psychological quirks of the author underlie its imagery. It's enough that, from the time I fall down that curious rabbit hole, swim through the sea of tears, dance the lobster quadrille (Can you walk a little faster?), I seem to be retracing every step of my life. Every one of Alice's adventures has its echo in the real world, and they aren't hard to match. So, my much-worn copy sits comfortably on the shelf nearest to hand, and my grandchildren-to-be can expect to find a copy of their own in their very first Christmas stockings. And, hopefully, we, too, will one day "talk of many things -- of ships, and shoes, and sealing wax; of cabbages and kings," just as I did with their parents when I first recited for them the dire warning "Beware the jabberwok, my son!"

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Summary: Another generation still loves this children's classic .
Review: My 16 year old son asked me to get this book for him from the local library; (I think he saw the cartoon). For whatever reason, I was happy to see him reading! He enjoyed it so much that I decided to read it again. It was still as magical as the first time I read it 25 years ago. If it's been awhile since you followed the White Rabbit and enjoyed a Mad Tea Party, do yourself a favor and read 'Alice' again

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Summary: The greatest dream-story of all time.
Review: Alice is still the most loved and dear child in any story. The wonderfil adventures with the white rabbit and cheshire cat are timeless

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Summary: Happy to have this movie back in my life!
Review: Like so many others I saw this version on tv in 1985. My grandparents taped it for me and before it was lost, I watched it relentlessly. Which I will begin to do again...immediately! If you haven't had the pleasure of seeing this movie or its mini-series counterpart, Through the Looking Glass, I highly recommend both. They will instantly become a favorite.

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Summary: THERE'S ONLY ALICE-Or How To Become An Alice Collector
Review: They say the most translated books along with Alice In Wonderland are the Bible and Shakespeare,one of which is a catalogue of death and murder the other closer to Pornography. Both are of course excrucuatingly boring.
Alice was always about Fun right from Day 1.Its led to endless parodies for one thing which all emphasize the fun factor and yet its also an academic thing.
Its author was a Genius but by the time the book was published it had had a catalyst in Alice Liddell,one of the children who heard the story and begged Carroll to write it down for her.
At this time there was no thought of offering the manuscript too a publisher,that again had another catalyst in author George McDonald whose daughter read the rough draft and liked it herself.
Over 100 years on the World is full of Alice Experts and there are Societies in the UK,North America,Japan and New Zealand to spread the Word According To Lewis Carroll
Nowadays you can find a months worth of reading on the Internet which means you can become an Alice Expert of sorts.The most obvious route to this is to become a Collector but here you have to specialize when an average of one new book a week appears.Or if not books there's over 100 CDs somewhere of Alice associated and inspired music.
You don't though even need to read the book in the physical sense when its on line or available as a Talking Book (with at least 50 different readers) so you can easily get someone else to read it out to you
What's become the Alice Industry is fuelled by endless merchandizing on line or via mail order and retail shops which specialise in Alice.
Here in England you become aware of more American than British involvement,every week bringing something new