When I read this a few years ago, I wasn’t too taken by it, mainly because of the lack of an overall story, if that makes sense? It felt like a mash of Carroll just bombarding the reader with a LOT of characters, all bouncing around in mini-stories with little meaning, and him just showing off his poetry skills (which are extraordinary, by the way, no doubt about it).

And it still felt like that this time around, but I appreciate it more because I understand that, especially from a young child’s point of view, this is a truly magical story because of these traits. It's literally called, 'Alice's *Adventures* in Wonderland' (in the plural), so of course it's going to be wildly erratic and unpredictable. I think that's the charm of it; the fact that it doesn't take itself seriously. All of the eccentricity and randomness that you find in the actual text itself is manifested in its structure, so we, as the reader, are as actively engaged with Wonderland as Alice is. Neither we, nor Alice, know where we'll be going next, and that's very fun indeed :)