Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Retold In Words Of One Syllable

by Mrs J.C. Gorham (Adapter), Lewis Carroll (Creator)

Al-ice had sat on the bank by her sis-ter till she was tired. Once or twice she had looked at the book her sis-ter held in her hand, but there were no pict-ures in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "with-out pict-ures?" She asked her-self as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel quite dull, if it would be worth while to get up and pick some dai-sies to make a chain. Just then a white rab-bit with pink eyes ran close by her. That was not such a strange thing, nor did Alice think it so much out of the way to hear the Rab-bit say, "Oh dear! Oh, dear! I shall be late!" But when the Rab-bit took a watch out of its pock-et, and looked at it and then ran on, Al-ice start-ed to her feet, for she knew that was the first time she had seen a Rab-bit with a watch. She jumped up and ran to get a look at it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rab-bit hole near the hedge. As fast as she could go, Al-ice went down the hole af-ter it, and did not once stop to think how in the world she was to get out. The hole went straight on for some way and then turned down with a sharp bend, so sharp that Al-ice had no time to think to stop till she found her-self fall-ing in what seemed a deep well.

Genres: Fantasy, Childrens, Classics

52 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1905

About the author

"Mrs J. C. Gorham, alas, is known to us only by her married name—and this means, by the usual practice of the time, that her husband was named J. C. Nevertheless, Mrs Gorham is notable for having written three books in "Burt's Series of One Syllable Books", Gulliver's Travels (1896) and Black Beauty (1905) being her other two, with some eleven other books in this "series of Classics, selected specially for young people's reading, and told in simple language for youngest readers". -- Evertype.com

Reviews

[Diamond Cowboy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have always loved this book even back to my childhood. I remember my Mother reading it to me and my emagination would run wild. I still today let my emagination go when I read this book. I just read this to my God Daughter and she was enthrawled.
I highly recommend this book to all.

[Nimit Khandelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

J.C Gorham wrote in a spectacular way. This book tells us why we should not cry. When Alice was big she started crying and when she became small she was in a flood of water. The favourite part is that when Alice’s sister wakes her up. I would recommend to read this book.

[Carrie Waeldin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun to read this way. Short read but I enjoyed the cleverness of the one-syllable retelling of this classic.

[James Crawford · Rating 1 out of 5]

What I cannot understand is why this book was ever published. What is it's purpose? It takes the original story and repeats it, except when any word is more than one syllable long it breaks it into the various syllables, making reading the story far more halting and difficult than it should be.

Of all the various versions of the story that I have read and seen, this is probably the single least worth reading of all.

[Ainsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I give this book 3 stars because, even though it was a good book, it wasn't challenging at all and was very easy for me. This book reminded me of my childhood, and made me laugh. I enjoyed reading this book very much, it was just too short and easy for my reading level.

[Colleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well Disney stuck pretty close to the original story. There were a couple of additional and different scenes in the book. Ended rather abruptly I thought.