While checking in on some of my favorite blogs, I learned that there is a challenge to bloggers to make 26 blog entries this month, each focusing on each letter of the alphabet. Since adventure is my favorite A word I am returning to my favorite childhood book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. It is amazing that this book was written that long ago and is still enjoyed today. It really is an odd book and I suppose that is what makes it so appealing. As a reader, I followed Alice and the White Rabbit into Wonderland and met incredible characters. Of course it has been adapted into movies but I would rather read the story than watch it. I was a dancing flower in a ballet production of Alice in Wonderland when I was 9 and I really believed that I was in Wonderland. In high school geometry, we read Through the Looking Glass and tried to discover all the mathematical references.
I read the book to my children one summer and Lauren,my oldest daughter, connected with it. She has dozen’s of versions of the book and continues to find more.
Have you ever read the book? Why do you think it has remained popular for so long?
I think I’ll start reading it again. It has been awhile and the book still surprises me.
have not read it but it seems like it would be fun! My daughter is in a ballet class and the arts center she attends is doing ALice inWonder Land later this month for their spring ballet performance. Should be fun!
Have fun with your a to z!
I have read Alice in Wonderland and it’s a crazy and fun book. I had to recite a poem years ago in college, and I chose Jaberwocky. And how sad a life it would be without a Cheshire Cat in it.
I love Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass! My parents gave them to me as a double volume, the Christmas I was 10. My fifth grade reading textbook had an excerpt from Looking Glass in it; when I recognized it, my teacher said I could not possibly have read the book. I was deeply offended!
My 9 year old daughter liked Alice well enough -but it’s Black Beauty that she collects. We have three versions here, including a paperback one that belonged to my mother in the 40s 0r 50s. We were in a bookstore last weekend, and she found a new version to add to her wishlist – this one’s leatherbound!
By the way, I love the way your template puts my comment into script.
This is a lovely post, and I will be back to see some of your other letters, as the month goes on. I’ll be checking out your Field Trips, too, because we’re a curious homeschooling family, and new ideas stir things up!
Now I want to read it again! This is an interesting blog, I look forward to a return visit!
Alice ‘s Adventures in Wonderland was Alice au Pays des Merveilles for me. I love the book as much as you, athough living so far from California. So not only it is a book that appeals to all generations but also to every country on earth. That’s something!
I’ve also met people who, like your daughter, collects every edition they can find. It is also the mark of a book that has left a profound impact on millions of readers.
This A to Z challenge sounds like lots of fun.
Who doesn’t love Alice in Wonderland ?! It teaches us, sometimes it is quite alright to have that overactive and creative imagination !