Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

by Deborah Hautzig (Adapter), Kathryn Rathke (Illustrator), Lewis Carroll (Creator)

Written by Lewis Carroll in 1865, this story remains a well-known classic to this day. It is the tale of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole and meets extraordinary creatures.

Genres: Classics, Childrens, Fantasy, Picture Books, Fiction, School

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Mr. Cody]

Teaching pluses: great for sequence of events and associating character traits. Not a clear theme, but manageable. Kids usually have the background knowledge and interest thanks to the Disney movies. Awesome for 1st-3rd.

[Renee]

Good starting point for Alice in Wonderland. Highly abridged version that only includes a few scenes, all of which are found in the Disney movie.

Mother Tongue notes: Read with 2 early readers over 10 lessons. Plenty of simple words, but with a good mix of new vocabulary. Aristocratic ranks mentioned several times. Discuss the English monarchy and class system.
Read over 2 lessons with an intermediate reader.

[Bvanover13]

Cute

Cute

My 7 year old loved this book. The illustrations and story line that followed were very entertaining. A great bedtime story to excite his dreams indeed :)

[Hosanna Casey]

It was cool. It is like a adventure.I loved it. It was about a girl her name is Alice , I think it is my favorite book. I can't believe how much I liked it.

[Sonora]

Actually read L2..

[Kat]

Basic Plot: Alice travels to Wonderland in search of the white rabbit, encounters a lot of nonsense, then wakes to find it was all a dream.

I'm not sure there's anyone in Western society who doesn't know the basics of the story by now. This adaptation for beginning readers is just one more in a long line of watered-down versions intended for small-child consumption. That sounded a lot meaner than I meant it.

It captures the basics of the story while using accessible vocabulary and sentence structure for a child learning to read. The art is cartoony, but decently done and clear in meaning. It was also a free Nook download when I picked it up, and there's no price better than free.

The overall effect is decent, but nothing terribly impressive. My son seems to like it, though, as he has re-read it a few times now.

[Elise G]

Alice had a dream about a cool place with cool thoughts like going to a palace with potions that can make you smaller than you are and bigger than you are. I liked the book because Alice had a cool adventure and I like adventures. I think the author's purpose was that when you have cool adventured dreams then you can have a good time to fall asleep.

[Vivian]

We used this "easy reader" re-telling of Alice to introduce our NINTH week of story times inspired by themes found in this classic story. This was also the week of "St. Patty's Day" so we explored the concepts of BIG and LITTLE (and "Little People" such as fairies and leprechauns).

[Jenna Bush]

This Fiction book is about yours truly; Alice. Throughout this true adventure, Alice discovers a new world! (Just by following a rabbit.) It could have explained more with more detail. But my Favorite part is when she's swimming with a Rat.

[Heather Redwan]

Always loved the story

[Jingle Jamili]

I love how the story flows..

[Tracy]

My granddaughter loved it!

[Natalie Finch]

It left out some parts but besides that it was amazing

[Zoey]

I like Alice because she is funny and beautiful and cind.The book was not like the movie.

[Mike]

good