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'Well in our country, said Alice, still panting a little, you'd generally get somewhere else - if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing.''A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'
On a snowy November day, Alice climbs through the mirror above the fireplace, the gateway to a weird and wonderful, topsy-tury world. Books have back-to-front writing, flowers talk and a twisty garden path refuses to lead Alice to where she wants to go. It's a place where you can remember things that haven't happened yet, where you cry out first and prick your finger afterwards. Strangest of all, the entire land is laid out like a giant chessboard, where the pieces are all alive. The Red Queen grants Alice's wish to be part of the game, starting out as a pawn, she makes her way up the board in the hope of becoming a queen herself. Along the way she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and a unicorn who thinks a child is a fabulous monster!
In Lew Carroll's enchanting fantasy, the bizarre is ordinary, the magical commonplace. 'One can't believe impossible things,' says Alice, find the Looking-glass-land rules very different from the ones she's used to. 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' replies the Queen. 'Why, sometimes I've believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' ISBN:9781908533319
