Ready to lie down in boredom and let the world drift away, Alice has one eye already closed when a large White Rabbit comes hopping by. 

There was nothing remarkable in the way the rabbit had happened along at just that moment. Alice just barely nodded her head until she heard the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear!
“Oh dear! I shall be too late!"

Too late, asks the child?  How would a rabbit know it was too late?  The answer comes when the Rabbit actually takes a large, gold watch out of its waistcoat-pocket and glances at it with a big worried frown before it hurries on. 

Her eyes flash open and Alice leaps to her feet, because for as far back as she could remember, Alice had never, ever before seen a rabbit with a waistcoat-pocket – or a watch to take out of its waistcoat-pocket either.

Lewis Carroll could speak for hours on various subjects, but he was not primarily an author, or even a writer.  The original format of Alice in Wonderland came forth in the format where Lewis Carroll was a genius, in telling stories.  No, that isn't the same thing; It's as different as night and day actually.

People that need to read their stories need to be entertained differently from those that listen to their stories being told, or watching their stories being told.  Sure, most of us love to watch a good movie occasionally, but for READERS? There ain't nothing like a book.

The slant and appeal of this version of Alice in Wonderland is the Table of Contents that reminds previous readers of the wonderful nonsensical, sentitious and yet outlandish windows of perception that Lewis Carroll opened for the human race.  A slider on the right will let you zip down to the page where this quotation is taken from.

We have the tormented French Mouse that falls asleep so fast he doesn't even snore.  The genius of Carroll is that HE didn't explain why the French Mouse SHOULD fall asleep.  People that were wise beyond their tears would chuckle at your cupidity and explain that dorme in French MEANS "SLEEP" 

In other words, once you knew why the door mouse was always sleeping then YOU could chuckle and explain this great SECRET hidden from the general, word-glancing public.

P.T. Barnum lived in this same era and he was quite an expert at giving a knowing genius a chance to press his supernal wisdom.  In an enclosure of many animals there was a sign that read "This Way To The Egress."

Now you've already seen the Tigress, Naturally you are primed to see the Egress.  But when you step through the door you find yourself on the outside, looking in.  "Hey," you think.. "I'm going to get Alfred and pull this Egress on him."

With Wunderland YOU will have the opportunity to explain all this arcane knowledge to you children as you read to them.  "Gee," they will say, and maybe even think,, "My Daddy's a rip-snorting, real, live genius.

I have given you larger fonts to make the reading much easier, and put extra space between the lines so there will be less chance of losing your scan as you peer just ahead of your listeners and smile delightedly into their fascinated gazes.

RIGHT Click HERE to download the whole book and begin reading. 

Go ahead.  Gather your children around you, get down to their level, Flash these pages up on your wall and start reading. Or, you can grab your laptop and gather a young child on each shoulder and lead them through the book.  You'll find that the Egress is right over this way. 

According to Edward Bok, Charles was known as a kindly, friendly, but shy gentleman with a studied reserve that frequently had no intention of being "delightful" with strangers and particularly, editors. His typical soft, but nonetheless firm, response to requests for official information regarding Lewis Carroll was, "You are not speaking to the person you think you are addressing."

In fact, when Queen Victoria wrote to him at 29, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London and asked for a copy of "his book," Charles produced a copy of "HIS" book. It was entitled, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and the author, of course, was C. L. Dodgson.

Charles Dodgson could speak non-stop for 2 hours about the wonders of Oxford and moved in many high-class social circles, but his speech skidded to a stop as soon as the subject of Lewis Carroll came up. "I am sorry that you should be disappointed. I only regret that I cannot remove the disappointment."

The Oxford don that often acted as intermediary to Charles L. Dodgson said, "That is his attitude toward all, even toward me. He is not 'Lewis Carfroll' to anyone, is extremely sensitive on the point, and will not acknowledge his identity. That is why he lives so much to himself. He is in daily dread that someone will mention Alice in his presence. Curious, but there it is."

Let's make no mistake here; Charles L. Dodgson loved children. Unlike some of our modern entertainers for children, there were no slips of the tongue there. He quite simply was NOT Lewis Carroll.

Charles L. Dodgson was also quite well known for using photography as a means of artistic expression. His scientific mastery of proper exposure, and sure knowledge of the complex chemistry of the "wet process" was typical of everything he attempted. He used the "wet process" of developing film to concentrate on portraiture, specializing in studies of children.

"When photographing children he brings his camera down to their level where its presence becomes less commanding, and one can readily picture him kneeling to tell some wonderful nonsensical story to put his sitter at ease before making the exposure. It was a talent that few adults possessed and is indicative of Dodgson's belief that children were a gift from God whose presence gave meaning to his life as reverend gentleman, academic, children's author, and photographer." Source of last paragraph, Wikipedia.