Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Jennifer Bassett (Adaptor), Lewis Carroll

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts...

Genres: Classics, Childrens, Fantasy

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1865

About the author

Jennifer Bassett has been a teacher, teacher trainer, editor, and materials writer, and has taught in England, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, and has written more than twenty original and retold stories for the series, including The Phantom of the Opera, One-Way Ticket, The President's Murderer, and William Shakespeare. Two of her adaptations, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Love Among the Haystacks, have won Language Learner Literature Awards, and three of her other titles have been finalists for the Awards. She has created a new sub-series called Bookworms World Stories, which are collections of short stories written in English from around the world. She has also written original stories for the English Today Readers and Storylines series. Jennifer is series co-adviser, with H.G. Widdowson, of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, volumes of unadapted short stories for advanced learners.

Reviews

[kian · Rating 5 out of 5]

to the left, the cat said, lives a Hatter.
and to the right, lives a March Hare.
you can visit either of them.they re both mad.
-but i dont want to visit mad people. said Alice.
we are all mad here, you know. said the cat. im mad. your mad.
-how do you know that im mad? said Alice.
of course youre mad. said the cat. only mad people come here.
*****
*****

well. I ve often seen a cat without a grin, though Alice, but never a grin without a cat!

[Marilisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lettura inglese per migliorare la mia lettura in lingua straniera

[eleanor :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book I picked from the Rory Gilmore reading list. I remember performing Alice the Musical a few years back and this book gave me so much nostalgia. It was a super fast and whimsical read. At the back of the book, there are activities. Some, you’re supposed to read at the beginning. Others, you’re meant to read either during or at the end of the book. It made the book more interactive and I really enjoyed it. I definitely want to read this one out loud to my little sisters.

[Victoria · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have always been told that Alice's adventures in Wonderland was a strange book and once I had actually read it,
I was amazed at the nonsensical book. The reason I gave it one star is because I didn't enjoy it and although it was a favourite with others, it was not a favourite with me.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

May we all, at some time, remember to look through the looking glass now and again.

[Neveen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was reading this with my students for the School's Book club. I really loved it. Good as the Original tale of Alice's adventures to the wonderful wonderland. It kept the story rich and the the mad hatter as made as the original text. A must read for children...

[Bridgette B · Rating 4 out of 5]

cute, short version of alice in wonderland. perfect length for a bedtime story :)

alice in wonderland always has and always will be one of my favorite childhood stories, and i will never get tired of reading adaptations and retellings.

[Maarten · Rating 5 out of 5]

"'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see.' 'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar. [...] 'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; 'only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar."

[nihal · Rating 5 out of 5]

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you cant help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

[Ariana · Rating 2 out of 5]

En realidad 1.5.
Creo que ha sido por que no tenía ganas de leerlo y pues llegué a un punto en el que no me enteraba de nada. Me ha decepcionado bastsnte

[Mauro Martinez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Un nivel fácil, ideal para escuchar mientras se hacen tareas sencillas sin perder el hilo. La voz de Miriam Margolyes es impresionante, adaptando el timbre a cada uno de los personajes, y con un maravilloso acento británico

[Juls◡̈ · Rating 4 out of 5]

k kreisi todo

[Evy Laumen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Brooke Watton · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can barely remember the movie, and I've never read the book so an easy wee read, and I'll scratch it off my bucket list! Didn't realise it was so short!

[Roxana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This edition has some interesting illustrations.

[Sharayah Rowat · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it! I've seen lots of reviews saying Alice is very unlikable, but I disagree... I think I'd act somewhat similarly if I was thrown into such odd situations.

[Evi Verheij · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5⭐

[oru ; · Rating 3 out of 5]

me sentí en la secundaria haciendo las actividades al final del cuento

[Charles Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

possibly better than the first time I read it, this fantastical tale is a fun and thought provoking romp thru light fantasy. filled with puns and clever wordplay, it is a word geek's playground.

[Betty Strohecker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though I've read "Alice" a number of times, it was good to return once again to Lewis Carroll's tale of fantasy, labeled an example of the literary nonsense genre. Carroll enjoyed playing with words, which is very evident in "Alice". Rereading this, makes me recall specific parts in the Disney classic movie production. I could hear and replay certain sounds and dialogue as I read. I'm glad my classics book club chose this book as its April selection!

[Gauryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I know the title because I've heard it a lot, but I didn't know the content at all.
I checked the contents while reading this time.
I think it was fun. I think it would be good to see the original text later.
The difficulty level was good. Oxford bookworms level 2 is also worth reading.
I wrote down words I didn't know, and the level of sentences was not difficult.

[Tum Kanapon · Rating 3 out of 5]

หยิบมาอ่านกับลูกก่อนนอน เมื่ออ่านจบถามลูกว่าสนุกไหม
ลูกสาวบอกว่า "ไม่ค่อยสนุก"

คิดว่าอาจลึกไปสำหรับเด็ก 5 ขวบ

[Margery Bayne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have mixed feeling about this story, finally reading it as an adult. I am generally a fan of children's literature with nonsense magical lands. For example, I am a huge fan of Peter Pan. However, when it comes down to it, this is a an adventure that really is just a series of events with no arc or thread. Alice vaguely wants to 'get to a garden' that she sees, but that is really the only character motivation we see, and she makes it there well before the end of the book. Also, Lewis Carroll almost rivals J.R.R. Tolkien with random poetry and verse thrown into his narrative. (Almost.) While I liked reading the original, being only ever familiar with adaptations, and there is an intriguing bizarre-ness to Wonderland that is like being in a dream where things makes sense but not really, I was left the story without feeling anything learned or gained or triumphed. I started Through the Looking Glass, the other Alice in Wonderland novel, but this felt even more detached from motivation than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and I had to give it up. Peter Pan and Wizard of OZ are both better variations of this story trope.

[Ani · Rating 2 out of 5]

Előre leszögezem – a 2 csillag nem a sztorinak, hanem az Oxford Bookworms Library könyveknek szól. A történet aranyos, az illusztrációk eltérnek a magyar verzióan olvasottaktól – AHOGY A TÖRTÉNET is, pedig ugyanazt a könyvet olvastam, CSAK a nyelvnek kellett volna másnak lennie.

Stage 2 – ez ok arra, hogy kivágjanak komplett részeket (fejezeteket!) egy műből? Valahogy másnak tűnt olvasás közben: eltűnt a mese a könny-tó partján, de nem mesélt The Dormouse se… Gryphon és Mock Turtle meg majdnemhogy egy az egyben kimaradt. Megjelentek, aztán léptünk is tovább… A vége az meg annyi, hogy Alice felébredt, elmesélte, happy end… NEMÁ'!

Mindenképpen sort fogok keríteni a teljes verzió elolvasására is. Ennyi nem elég, akarom a táncot, dalt, mesét :)

A Glossary-ban viszont aranyosnak találtam a következő meghatározásokat:

Dream: a picture in your head when you are asleep

Mad: ill in the head

Igen, tudom, hogy nyelvfejlesztő „tankönyv”.

[Aki Kawachi]

1. Lewis Carroll, level 2
2. 4/9=60 minutes, 4/10=30 minutes, 4/13=20 minutes, 4/15=20 minutes
3.
rabbit
Queen
croquet
cat
tea-party
execution
tarts
4. I like this book because I have known since I was child and it's easy to understand. One day Alice followed a White Rabbit and she fell into a hall. Actually she was in the Wonderland. She met many strange animals and asked them, she played croquet with the Queen and the King. The Queen is always mad and she often said "Off with his head!" But finally people didn't follow the Queen thanks to Alice. Actually I was not sure about the outcome. I like the part of "the poor of tears". Alice was very big before she ate a cake which was to be small and she cried a lot. So it was a poor when she became small. That was interesting.
5. I enjoyed this book! But it was a little difficult about the last part.

[Nanami · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Oxford lv2
2. 7/6 30min 7/11 15min 7/12 15min 7/13 10min
3. white rabbit, strange, wonderland, caterpillar, tea-party, Cheshire Cat, croquet, dream
4. I like the scene which Alice change her body big and small. She finds the small door and over the door, there are beautiful garden. She wants to go the garden, but she can't enter the door because she is too big to enter. Then, she finds a bottle and there was written " drink me". So she drink it, then, she began to be smaller. She was happy because she can enter the door. But the key of the door is on the table. She can't get it because she was too small. After that, she change her tall big and small. It was very strange scene. But it was interesting!
5. This book has a lot of strange scene, so I was interesting a lot. The book has many character, so it's also interesting. I recommend this book!

[Yuna Tatsuoka · Rating 4 out of 5]

oxford bookworms library classics level 2
11/19= 80 minutes

7 words summary: a girl, rabbit-hole, wonderland, strange, animals, Queen and dream

discussion questions:
1, there was the bottle with a paper written the word "DRINK ME". if you drank it and you could get smaller, what do you want to do?
- I want to go into the hole of ants and explore the inside of it.

2, have you ever dreamed an exciting dream?
- yes. when I was a high school student, I dreamed that I travel a lot of foreign countries and go shoppings and eat many good food. I was very happy.

this book is very famous in the world and I could read it easily. it is also interesting because many animals can speak in this book. it is excitng. i want to read classics books more.

[Eri Anegawa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by LEWIS CARROLL
OXFORD and stage2

Time: 9/27 = 60min

7 word summary:
unexpected - hole- rabbit - strange - cry - adventure - dream-

Discussion Q:
1, When you were child, have you ever dreamed about a pleasant dream?

A, Actually, I don't remember my dream that I had a dream when I was a child. But I just remember that I had often talked with lots of animals in the dream. That was fun for me, and even now I want it to become a real.


I really like this story, because It can makes me happy and pleasant:) Of course, it is a fairy tale, but I can get into the story every time.

[Saya Nakata · Rating 3 out of 5]

1.Oxford level2

2.4/30=10minutes,5/3=20minutes,5/5=20minutes,5/6=30minutes

3.Alice,Rabbit,Queen,fall,wonderland,cat,tea-party

4.a)"Perhaps I'm near the centre of the earth. Let me think... That's four thousand miles down."

b)I like this passage because Alice is calm. If I fall in the hole, I would not be able to think about that.

5. The story is easy to read for me because I have been familiar to it since I was little and this is a famous story. I think the story is very mysterious because there are many funny things such as talking animals and strange food which changes the size of its body. The wonderland seems interesting but I don't want to go there.

[Kiyu Nishiki · Rating 3 out of 5]

（1）
Book title：ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Publisher：OXFORD
Book level：2
2： It took me （85）minutes to read

3〔Seven words〕
・ Alice
・met
・many
・animals
・big
・small
・strange

4（about passage. like or don't like）
a...The scene Alice became too big to get out a room.
b...I thought she should have break the room because her body was big enough to do that.

5 （Explain about book）
I have heard the title "Alice" but I didn't know the story at all. So, I chose this book.
There are many animals in this book and Alice became big, small, big, small... So it was difficult a little to understand the story.
But I felt like to watch Alice's movies.