Alice in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable

by Mrs J.C. Gorham (Adapter), Lewis Carroll (Creator)

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genres: Fantasy, Childrens, Classics

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1905

About the author

"Mrs J. C. Gorham, alas, is known to us only by her married name—and this means, by the usual practice of the time, that her husband was named J. C. Nevertheless, Mrs Gorham is notable for having written three books in "Burt's Series of One Syllable Books", Gulliver's Travels (1896) and Black Beauty (1905) being her other two, with some eleven other books in this "series of Classics, selected specially for young people's reading, and told in simple language for youngest readers". -- Evertype.com

Reviews

[Diamond Cowboy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have always loved this book even back to my childhood. I remember my Mother reading it to me and my emagination would run wild. I still today let my emagination go when I read this book. I just read this to my God Daughter and she was enthrawled.
I highly recommend this book to all.

[Nimit Khandelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

J.C Gorham wrote in a spectacular way. This book tells us why we should not cry. When Alice was big she started crying and when she became small she was in a flood of water. The favourite part is that when Alice’s sister wakes her up. I would recommend to read this book.

[Carrie Waeldin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun to read this way. Short read but I enjoyed the cleverness of the one-syllable retelling of this classic.

[James Crawford · Rating 1 out of 5]

What I cannot understand is why this book was ever published. What is it's purpose? It takes the original story and repeats it, except when any word is more than one syllable long it breaks it into the various syllables, making reading the story far more halting and difficult than it should be.

Of all the various versions of the story that I have read and seen, this is probably the single least worth reading of all.

[Ainsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I give this book 3 stars because, even though it was a good book, it wasn't challenging at all and was very easy for me. This book reminded me of my childhood, and made me laugh. I enjoyed reading this book very much, it was just too short and easy for my reading level.

[Colleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well Disney stuck pretty close to the original story. There were a couple of additional and different scenes in the book. Ended rather abruptly I thought.