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I have a copy of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass which was given to me on my seventh birthday. I wish this copy still had the original artwork on the cover. I found it fascinating. My grandmother gave me a copy along with a harmonica. The harmonica was lost long ago, the book remains and has always had a place in my heart. I was too young to read the entire book, so my father started reading this book to me. Perhaps still having this book has given me a connection to the past.I laugh when I reminisce about my father (who is now 70) singing "Beautiful Soup," most beautifully I must add. He also recited "Jabberwocky" and I can still hear his voice as he read the tale of the Walrus:"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."The Mad Tea Party is also very memorable. There is all kinds of nonsense talk children will love to try to figure out, and as adults still might be trying to figure out! They will love the riddles and beautiful illustrations. The mouse, the chess pieces and the Cheshire cat talk most intelligently about various concerns in Wonderland. Just as everything in a child's world is sometimes alive to them, so Alice's world is filled with things that are alive and most interesting to children.Alice never seems to run out of adventures. The Looking Glass House is amusing to me as it has a cute black kitten who is quite mischievous. I quote:"Oh, you wicked, wicked little thing!" cried Alice catching up the kitten and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. "Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! ....... Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help if it might.John Tenniel's illustrations make the book and together he and Lewis Carroll created a magical world for children to explore. I hope you will read this book to your children, read them many books about many things. They will always thank you for it. Thank you Dad, I love you! You have given me so many things, and I thank you for my love of reading. I dedicate this review to my dad who will always live eternally with me as long as I have this book tucked safely away.

Alice has been my favourite book all my life (both volumes). It made totally different sense to me when I was 6 than it does now that I am grown up, so it has seemed like many different books to meme throughout my life! It's great to see Carroll's other works. Some of the poems are just as good as the ones in ALice. One of my favorite poems is "Hiawatha's Photographing", which is written in the style of Longfellow. The introduction, in prose, is actually written in the same eetre. Except that you don't notice that, because the punctuation is like prose, not poetry. It starts: "In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy..." It's nice to have the illustrations because Carroll was very careful about the illustrations and you can see just how he pictured his works. This is a wonderful book to give as a gift either to someone else...... or yourself

I love Alice in Wonderland and I can't wait until I read Through the Looking Glass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful.....wonderful. Lewis Carroll is a genius to behold. Which such books as Alice and Looking Glass (which I like better than Alice) Lewis Carroll has made us have wonderful entertainment for ages. Sylvie and Bruno is in it.... including The Tangled Tale, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Alices Adventures Under-ground, Rhyme? and Reason? The Hunting of the Snark, Three Sunsets, and, of course, the two Alice books. A toast to Lewis Carroll!