Calico Illustrated Classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 Down the Rabbit Hole 4 CHAPTER 2 The Pool of Tears 13 CHAPTER 3 A Race and a Tale 21 CHAPTER 4 The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill 30 CHAPTER 5 Advice from a Caterpillar 40 CHAPTER 6 An Extraordinary Cat 49 CHAPTER 7 The Mad Tea Party 58 CHAPTER 8 Croquet with the Queen 69 CHAPTER 9 The Mock Turtle’s Story 79 CHAPTER 10 The Lobster Quadrille 87 CHAPTER 11 Who Stole the Tarts 95 CHAPTER 12 The Evidence 104
1 Down the Rabbit Hole Alice was tired of sitting by her sister on the riverbank She had nothing to do Once or twice she peeked into the book her sister was reading It wasn’t very exciting It had no pictures or any dialogue in it What good is a book thought Alice without pictures or conversations She wondered if she should search for daisies to make a daisy chain She was about to begin her search when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran by her There wasn’t anything particularly odd about a rabbit running close to her But this rabbit was different This rabbit spoke Oh dear Oh dear I shall be late it said But it wasn’t until the rabbit took a watch out 4
of its pocket that Alice ran across the field after it She caught up with it just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit hole under the hedge Within a minute Alice went down after it She never once considered how in the world she’d get back out again The hole went straight on like a tunnel for quite a ways Then it dipped down so suddenly that Alice had no time to think about stopping herself She fell so fast It was as if she was going down a well She decided that either the well was very deep or she was falling slowly Alice had plenty of time to look around her At first she tried to look down to see where she was going But it was too dark to see anything Then she looked to the sides of the well They were filled with cupboards and bookshelves There were maps lying about and pictures hung on pegs Alice grabbed one of the jars on the shelves labeled Orange as she passed Marmalade To her great disappointment it It was 5
