Alice im Wunderland

by Walt Disney Company

Relive Walt Disney's 13th full-length animated feature. With every turn of a page, adventure unfolds to create memories that will last a lifetime.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Media Tie In

118 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1951

About the author

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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.

Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

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Reviews

[Archit · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorites. The characters in Wonderland were too amazing. Recommended to anyone who enjoys magic and a bit of fun.

[Gerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very colourful illustrations by the Walt Disney Studios enhance the short text by Al Dempster, who foreshortens some incidents but in doing so loses nothing from the gist of the story overall.

Alice was growing tired listening to her sister reading aloud to her when she suddenly saw, out of the corner of her eye, a white rabbit hurrying by, looking at his pocket watch and talking to himself. Thinking that this was curious she follows him and finds herself falling down a huge hole into the centre of the Earth. Then her strange adventures began.

A small door was an obstacle until she drank from a bottle on a table and shrank to a size that permitted her to enter and there she was suddenly floating on a bottle on a mysterious sea. She met Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee but neither knew of the White Rabbit so she hurried on until she met him in a wood.

White Rabbit sent her into his house to fetch his gloves but she noticed some cookies labelled 'Take One' ... so she did and she grew to an enormous size. White Rabbit and his friend Dodo thought she was a dreadful monster!

Taking a bite from a carrot that she found, she became small once more and entered a garden of talking live flowers but the flowers thought that she was a weed and would not let her stay. Moving on, therefore, she met a caterpillar who told her to eat some mushrooms nearby that would change her size.

The bite from the mushroom did just that but she shot up taller than the treetops and frightened the birds! Fortunately another bite made her the right size once more. Wondering which was to go, she encountered the Cheshire Cat, grinning at her, had a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hair, played croquet with the Queen of Hearts, was chased by the army of cards when the Queen declared, 'Off with her head!' and then discovered that she was back on the riverbank where it all began.

Thank goodness that dream is over ... I'm exhausted!

[Canette Arille · Rating 3 out of 5]

First time I read this book in my childhood. Nothing special, but it was very popular, so I read this too. I m a fan of other Disney stories like the little mermaid or sleeping beauty. Just this book - Alice in Wonderland isnt that interesting like for example: the little mermaid. This book is a little boring for me, but dont look at this review. If You really wants to read this book, just do it :)

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Alice! Never get sick of the story. Great for bedtime.

[Elin (Tickmicks bokblogg) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I mean... Alice is awesome no matter how many times I read it and no matter which edition I read 😊😉

[Shirley Revill · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my family's favourites. Ideal for kids of all ages.

[Shirley Revill · Rating 5 out of 5]

A classic story for children. Recommended.

[Toni · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a fantastic story. One that you can enjoy over and over again. I definitely recommend it.

[Dakota · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a story about Alice. She is a younger girl with a crazy imagination which you will find out soon enough if you read the book. The story begins when she falls asleep and goes to Wonderland. Where she chases this white rabbit trying to figure out where she is and what she should do. While chasing this rabbit she meets strange animals like a cat that can disappear and reappear whenever it wants. Alice goes through a lot of weird obstacles in this story and later wakes up from her wacky dream.

In this story the main character of course is Alice. In this story the author doesn’t go into much detail about their characters very well but I guess thats not really that important to little kids in a childs book but she is a younger girl with a bizarre imagination. Another character is one that Alice chases around her whole dream and the original person that leads her to where wonder land is in her dream. This character is the White Rabbit. The White Rabbit is not your ordinary rabbit , he is in a fancy little outfit and can talk. Throughout the story he is late to some important event and is always in a rush so he can't stop to talk to Alice. The final character I will talk about is the Queen of Hearts. In this story she is the villain because the Queen meets Alice and wants to play croquet but Alice refuses,so the Queen wants Alice’s head chopped off but later Alice runs away and all is well.

The story takes place originally next to a tree on the ground where Alice falls asleep and starts to dream but the primary setting is Wonderland which is all made up in her head. This place is full of things that are completely bizarre and wacky, such as animals that can talk and animals that don't exist. Alice later is walking around and ends up in the castle of the Queen of Hearts where everything is based off of play cards if you couldn't tell by her name. Around the castle is a big garden that is made into a maze. This garden is full of roses that are black but the Queen's servants all run around and paint them red because the Queen see the color black unacceptable. After alice gets away from the Queen and gets out of the maze she wakes up and is back to the original place she fell asleep.

The main theme in this small childs book is never chase after unknown things that could get you into a weird predicament. Another theme in this book is that you should always have a little bit of a fun imagination in life or it will get to serious. The third and last theme is that if someone is in a rush don't try to prolong what they are doing and don't try and get into their business because you don't know what to expect and you don't know what they are up to in the long run.

This is a great classic book for younger readers. I grew up watching the movie and having the book read to me as a child. I can really relate to this book because as a young child I had some pretty interesting dreams and when I wasn't having these interesting dreams I was getting into trouble chasing after things I wasn't sure about. All and all this is a great book for young readers the only thing in this book that could have been a little better is the description of the characters because the author never really sees much about the characters and just starts the story off with you knowing nothing about the characters.

[Toni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alice In Wonderland,

This book has been one of my life time favorites. I just re read it and had to rate and review it. This book is so good that you can read it over and over again. This subjects that it touches on are so neat. All the different characters that you meet in this book. Alice in the beginning and you watch how as the story goes on, that you can meet individuals who may be different then you, but still be amazing people you know and maybe even consider friends. How life doesn't always follow the way you think it should, yet it is all about life. Great book.

[Rachel Yuska · Rating 3 out of 5]

alice was high on 'shroom. she chased the rabbit and suddenly she was in a crazy wonderland. that's the price for not listening to your sister's story. respect anybody who reads to you.

[Anne Bollmann (Annelise Lestrange) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a timeless classic and Little Golden Book's edition is precious with its vintage illustrations <3 once again, I fell in love with this story!

[Tina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. I don't care for this version of the story. Too much is missing.

[Martein Joaquim · Rating 5 out of 5]

My life is my human version of the movie

[Mandi Hidalgo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like the artwork, but there were things missing from the story that made the story a bit sillier. Like they skipped where she cried and flooded the room and then shrunk herself again winding up in a river of her tears. Instead, she just wound up in a bottle in a mysterious river. Haha! I still love it. I just felt they could've made it better by adding just a few more pages.

[Diana · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected this to be a simplification of the movie, but it might be a little TOO simple for my taste. Maybe three sentences per page? Really, though, it was cute. Good for kids who have already seen the movie, but useless otherwise since there isn't enough story related for it to stand alone.

[Greisi]

Its so wonder!!

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite well done fitting majority of the story into such a shortened version.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a 2010 copyrighted version, reprint of the original 1951 Walt Disney's Alice In Wonderland book. A beautiful time-capsule of nostalgia for Disney and Alice fans.

[Edu Ruiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy chachi y pa leer con los crios super ameno y divertido

[Laurel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has great illustrations and is very easy to read and entertaining as read aloud to children. The story takes place originally next to a tree on the ground where Alice falls asleep and starts to dream, but the primary setting is Wonderland which is in her dream. Wonderland begins as a great hall with a tiny door. A talking door knob instructs her on how to alter her size several times--resulting in being able to leave the room as a 3 "inch high girl sailing in a bottle in a sea of her giant tears.

Once ashore she lands in a place is full of things that are completely bizarre and wacky, such as food that changes your height, animals wearing human clothes, talking and having a tea party. The tea party is actually an Unbirthday Party that includes the March Hare, and the Mad hatter. Being "curiouser and curiouser", Alice tries to follow a clock watching white rabbit to his house and the as well as the white rabbit.

Other fascinating characters are the Cheshire Cat, who appears and disappears, and a dog with the head of a broom that sweeps the path away so Alice has no path to follow. Tweedledee and Tweedledum are comical set of chubby twins who tell her a poem of a walrus and a carpenter that lure a unsuspecting family of oysters to their table for "dinner".
The white rabbit thinks Alice is his house maid, Mary Ann, and insists that she find his gloves and fan. Alas she enters his house and Alice finds some enchanted cookies that cause her to turn into a giant monster. She only regains a smaller stature when she eats a magic carrot plucked from his garden.

The butterflies in the book actually have pieces of buttered bread for wings. A huge caterpillar uses a hookah to smoke "something" that causes him to smoke rings in the air and ask the 3 inch tall Alice, over and over Who Are YOU? When Alice tells him she wants to return to the correct size of a young girl, he tells her about eating some magic size increasing mushrooms.

Afterward she arrives at the castle of the evil Queen of Hearts. Her guards are all playing cards who at one point are painting the white roses red to avoid the queen's anger. These roses are all around the castle in a big garden that is made into a maze. Alice is asked to play a crazy croquet game with the queen. They used hedge hogs as balls and live flamingos as mallets. After Alice gets away from the Queen and gets out of the maze she wakes up and is back to the original place she fell asleep.

[Irish Blue Eyes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alice, feeling a sense of boredom while sitting on a riverbank, pursues a White Rabbit into a hole that leads to Wonderland, a realm governed by dream-like logic. In this fantastical place, she experiences fluctuations in size, encounters talking beings such as the Caterpillar, the Duchess's Pig-Baby, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and the Gryphon, participates in a chaotic Mad Tea Party, and observes an absurd trial presided over by the Queen of Hearts, ultimately awakening to the realization that it was merely a dream. Wonderland serves as a reflection of the illogical conventions of Victorian society, perceived through the lens of a child, while Alice navigates her evolving identity and the perplexing journey into adulthood. Throughout her adventures, Alice persistently questions her own identity as she undergoes size changes and interacts with characters who fail to recognize her, symbolizing the struggles associated with self-identity. Initially, Alice's curiosity propels her into Wonderland, yet Disney's adaptation highlights the importance of embracing one's identity, whereas Carroll's original narrative focuses more on the exploration of nonsensical rules. Carroll employs wordplay and absurdity to critique logic and societal institutions, while Disney's interpretation often distills this complexity into lighthearted amusement.

[Terea W · Rating 5 out of 5]

•Alice in Wonderland is a children’s literature fiction book for children 4-9 years old. Alice in Wonderland is about a young girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole and finds herself in the strange and bizarre world of Wonderland. I rated this book 5-stars because of the characters in this book. The characters Alice met while going through Wonderland really made this book interesting because each character had their own personalities, and each played a part when interacting with Alice. Not only were there so many characters but each character Alice interacting with was in a way teaching Alice to be herself and not the “Alice” she thinks she is. The illustrations also popped out when reading showing how Wonderland was very beautiful but also mysterious and creepy. I believe this book would be appealing to young readers who enjoy adventurous books and funny characters that like to make things difficult for the main character. I would use this book and come up with discussion questions for my 2nd or 3rd grade students to see if they can think a little more in depth using the characters, illustrations and plot of the story.

[Rachel Hoover · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alice and wonderland is about a girl named Alice falls down a rabbit hole and ends up in this fantasyland with all these interesting characters. She sees things that seem impossible in real life and is trying to get back to real life, but she must stay on the queens liking or she at risk for danger. This fantasy story would be more geared towards an older age group because its a very in depth story about distinguishing between real life and fantasy. The language is a little more deep for younger children to be able to understand. The animations in this story are amazing and the plot and setting were very well thought out which again suggests that the book is for an older age group. I think this book would really appeal to the children because of the very different and whimsical "wonderland" world that this book creates that is far different from "normal" life like they are used too, also with the characters being so different than your typical story book characters its a very unique feel that children would be very interested in.

[Alana Walters · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is about a young girl who sees a white rabbit run by and follows him down a rabbit hole. She ends up in a magical place and meets all kinds of people, and creatures. She meets the queen and upsets her and has to escape and on her way out she can quietly can hear the voices of the friends she made. In the end she is woken up by her sister who says she fell asleep.

This is a great story for imagination, and problem solving. Learning how to problem solve is something children should learn early on.

[Chereen]

Summary:
"Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland" is a delightful movie about a girl named Alice who finds herself in a magical world after chasing a rabbit. In Wonderland, she meets all sorts of strange characters like the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts. As Alice goes on her adventure, she learns about friendship and the importance of believing in herself.

Comment:
With its whimsical story, catchy songs, and colorful animation, "Alice in Wonderland" is a classic Disney film that sparks imagination and joy in both kids and adults alike.

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok so now Alice of course sees a White Rabbit and just has to follow it down the rabbit hole and off on an adventure she goes along the way she learns eating things can make u grow or shrink depending on what it is and of course she meets the twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Mad hatter,March Hare, Cheshire Cat, and many others some help her out and some like the Queen of Hearts want to kill her lol so u will have to read it to find out what happens

[Alyson Carroll · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is about a young girl named Alice who falls down a mysterious hole. She ends up going on an adventure with the Mad Hatter, The Cheshire Cat, The Rabbit, and many others. Alice and her friends must defeat the red queen's ruling. I would read this to my students to help improve their imagination and creative skills.

[Connor Ashcraft · Rating 4 out of 5]

This follows the same story line as the motion picture but is a book format. You still go though wonderland with Alice as she meets new friends such as the mad hatter and enemies such as the queen of hearts.

[Caitlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alice in wonderland is a great book to get kids interested and for kids to enhance their creativity. This is one of the most creative books for children. The images in this are colorful and keeps the reader engaged.