When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass,
everything is distorted.
This book is part of a book series called Puffin Classics .
There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 1994 by Penguin Books Ltd .
Sir John Tenniel was already a renowned cartoonist when he was invited to produce illustrations for Alice. His exquisite engravings are among the most iconic and best loved images in the world. Paul Stewart is the very funny, very talented author of more than fifteen books for children, including The Edge Chronicles, a collaboration with Chris Riddell. Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898. Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865.
This book contains the following story:
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll's Alice passess through the mirror to a back to front land which is even curiouser than Wonderland. Here she meets some iconic characters - the Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty - and gets to listen to some very strange poetry, including the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter, and the fiercesome Jabberwock. You can read the unabridged text here.