The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted. 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. Join Alice on her weird and wonderful journey, where nothing is quite as it seems. You never know where you'll find yourself in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, introduced by Chris Riddell. Note that the picture of Alice looking at the Cheshire Cat in a tree that appears on this linked product page is not the cover that appears on the downloaded sample the cover that does appear is of Alice walking with the Duchess and looks like this kindle book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - now for more typical.
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