Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By Lewis Carroll

Back last year. Well before this blogging thing kicked off I decided to introduce my class to the classics. Well, at least ONE classic novel. I decided on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. There was a truck load of teaching materials I might use, its entirely appropriate for the age of kids I have Y3-5 AND there is the advantage of the Classic Disney movie.
I love Alice's Adventures. There is much to 'see' in them. The descriptive language is a wonder. And the original illustrations are so very perfect for me to talk about with the students. My favourite portion, and also the bit many of my students enjoyed too is when Alice gats trapped in the White Rabbit's House and kicks Little Bill right up and out of the chimney.

Synopsis

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, and a grinning cat, joins a mad tea-party and plays croquet with the fearsome Queen of Hearts! Lost in the weird and wonderful fantacy land, Alice begins to wonder exactly how she'll ever find her way home...

Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.In 1856, he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of "Lewis Carroll". This pseudonym was a play on his real name: Lewis was the anglicized form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll an Irish surname similar to the Latin name Carolus, from which comes the name Charles.

By the same author
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Jabberwocky and other poems
The Hunting of the Snark