Author Lewis Carroll wrote this story for his young niece Alice. Alice, who falls asleep in a meadow, dreams that she follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole. She then falls into a dreamland full of wonders.
Alice has many wondrous adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures, often changing size unexpectedly. Alice’s size changes too. On one occasion, she grows as tall as a house. Later, she shrinks to the size of a finger. She encounters the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Duchess with a baby that becomes a pig, and the Cheshire Cat.
Alice attends a strange endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. She plays a game of croquet with an unmanageable flamingo for a croquet mallet and uncooperative hedgehogs for croquet balls. Later, she meets a sobbing Mock Turtle, who describes his education in subjects such as Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
Alice is then called as a witness in the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who is accused of having stolen the Queen’s tarts. However, when the Queen demands that Alice be beheaded, Alice realizes that the characters are only a pack of cards, and she then awakens from her dream.
Little Alice appears in two novels- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. Alice has been identified as a cultural icon.
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