Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Alice in Wonderland: Children's Classics
    Alice in Wonderland: Children's Classics
    Alice in Wonderland: Children's Classics
    Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

    Alice in Wonderland: Children's Classics

    Written by Lewis Carroll

    Narrated by Catherine O'Hara

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Join Alice as she goes down into the mysterious rabbit hole and then enters a land of wonder and curiosity. This all-time classic tale by Lewis Carroll as told by Catherine O’Hara will simply delight and enchant every listener.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudio Holdings
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    ISBN9781601360236
    Alice in Wonderland: Children's Classics
    Author

    Lewis Carroll

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, deacon and photographer. He is most famous for his timeless classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His work falls within the genre of ‘literary nonsense’, and he is renowned for his use of word play and imagination. Carroll’s work has been enjoyed by many generations across the globe.

    More audiobooks from Lewis Carroll

    Related to Alice in Wonderland

    Related audiobooks

    Classics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Bees Are Coming

      Aug 4, 2022

      The Bees Are Coming
      7 min read

    • Article

      Changing ROOMS

      Sep 14, 2022

      Changing ROOMS
      6 min read

    • Article

      Winds Of Change

      Dec 10, 2019

      “Till the end of the pitted and dusty lane, she was a dry, brown leaf swiftly floating down a clear stream. Part of it was easy, the part about being brown. ‘Brown as mud and common as mud,’ Aaji would scream every morning waking her up. The rest of

      9 min read

    • Article

      HOME To Roost

      Mar 5, 2024

      HOME To Roost
      11 min read

    • Article

      Alice And The Jabberwocky

      Apr 10, 2022

      ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe. Once again, Alice found herself in her bedroom, feeling rather mimsy indeed. Every day now, at two o’clock, she would sit at

      18 min read

    • Article

      Heave’s Whisky

      Feb 27, 2024

      Heave’s Whisky
      7 min read

    • Article

      Today Will Be A Good Day

      Aug 5, 2021

      Today Will Be A Good Day
      6 min read

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Sep 1, 2022

      First prize 10 and under Tang Li, age 9 Palmetto Bay, FL My name is Anisa. I was in Hawaii on vacation. I enjoyed sipping refreshing drinks, overlooking the turquoise ocean, and dancing with others, before I overheard that the priceless Fire Ring wa

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Hound and the Hidden Homework

      Feb 1, 2019

      The Hound and the Hidden Homework
      4 min read

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Apr 1, 2020

      Linden, age 9 Green Bay, WI Ophidia, the medusa, tried desperately to sketch a self-portrait. Later she would add color. Her problem was every time she looked into the lake at her reflection, the snakes of her hair were in a very different place. Sh

      8 min read

    • Article

      Home to ROOST

      Jan 11, 2022

      Home to ROOST
      11 min read

    • Article

      Blackberries

      Apr 5, 2023

      Blackberries
      24 min read

    • Article

      Where TWO RIVERS MEET

      Apr 3, 2024

      Where TWO RIVERS MEET
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Puppet Theater

      Dec 1, 2020

      Olgi says she’s going to take me somewhere and show me something I’ve never seen before. We walk through a door into an inner courtyard, then from there into another one, then into a third one, where there is a wire fence. Olgi knows where the fence

      6 min read

    • Article

      The LittleTHINGS

      Jul 5, 2022

      The LittleTHINGS
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Silence of Witches

      Dec 10, 2019

      The Silence of Witches
      6 min read

    • Article

      All My Tomorrows

      May 10, 2022

      It was Misha’s first day minding the shop, and already she’d broken the fifth rule. Always lock the door immediately. When you had the most valuable merchandise in the universe, you had to take the utmost precautions. She hadn’t meant to disobey. It

      13 min read

    • Article

      Famous People

      Mar 1, 2022

      Famous People
      15 min read

    • Article

      Dancing SHOES

      Oct 21, 2020

      Dancing SHOES
      6 min read

    • Article

      Failure to Thrive

      Dec 15, 2019

      Alice read John Mark’s letter, her eyes narrowed, as I paced our tiny apartment. The envelope contained instructions for retrieving two sets of human remains from the University of Florida. I sometimes worked for John Mark, the director of the Milwau

      20 min read

    • Article

      THE Well-wishers

      Nov 17, 2021

      THE Well-wishers
      3 min read

    • Article

      THE HOUSE with the BLUE DOOR

      May 7, 2020

      THE HOUSE with the BLUE DOOR
      6 min read

    • Article

      A PRECIOUS Moment In Time

      Jun 17, 2019

      There’s something about Lambrook Hall that always draws me back and I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been here. I don’t really care if it’s hundreds, to be honest. I can’t resist it. I’m in the dining room again now. Not the ballroom or the lib

      6 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Mar 1, 2024

      I was trying to look a little less like myselfand more like other humans, humans who belonged, so I put on a skort.Purchased in another life, when I had a husband and wrote thank-you notes and held dinner parties,the skort even had its own little poc

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Little Trip

      Aug 2, 2021

      As the first morning light peeked through the gap in the curtains, Alice left her new husband in bed. She wrapped her silk kimono around her; a present from Jeremy, it reminded her yet again just how generous he’d been since their wedding. Even this

      5 min read

    • Article

      Ann Beattie

      Sep 15, 2017

      I’d started to visit Olivia more often because it was obvious she was lonely. The ALS lady who’d been moved to Hopkins had been Aunt Olivia’s closest friend, leaving aside Merton Hillstead, who actually went home. Even the friendly paperboy who somet

      23 min read

    • Article

      The Education of Mrs. R.

      Sep 6, 2022

      An adolescent shriek woke her. Cockerels, she thought, cockerels, with a wry twist to the word. She lay in the dark listening. There was no use in covering her head; the screaming still came through. The soloist was suddenly submerged in the chorus.

      13 min read

    • Article

      J. Jezewska Stevens

      Dec 15, 2017

      The party was a failure. I can’t even tell you what a failure it was. There are no words. Only a great pain in my chest when I wake up. On the veranda. It’s better when I sit in the chair. Oh, but then I can see around. The gauzy curtains, pushed by

      15 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Alice in Wonderland

    4/5

    203 ratings183 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      I remember this book scared me as a child!
    • 5/5
      Written in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a wonderful fantasy adventure story about a little girl who drinks a potion, which makes her very small. She falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by absurd anthropomorphic creatures. Reading level: 9-10.
    • 5/5
      i don't care how old you are, this is a great story!!
    • 3/5
      Alice in Wonderland is a story about a girl named Alice. Chasing after a white rabbit, Alice finds herself falling deep into a rabbit hole and the deeper she goes, the curiouser and curiouser things become. She finds drinks that make her shrink and cakes that make her grow larger. Alice also runs into talking animals that teach her lessons about different things. This book is whimsical and funny and is not rooted in reality. This book is a classic. It was written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll. I thought this book was interesting because it was so fantastic and fun. It was a little weird to read though since nothing that happened was rooted in reality. I did not find myself relating to Alice since she is a strange character who talks to herself most of the book.The theme of this book seems to be finding your way home and finding your place in the world. Alice also learns a lot of different lessons along the way. I am not sure how this book would work with modern children. When I was reading it I could definitely tell it was written a long time ago and I am not sure if students would be able to connect since I had difficultly connecting to it. I do think they would have fun with the silly characters and fun story.
    • 5/5
      This is a book that i assumed i had read in full. I knew all about the Mad Hatter and the dormouse and the March Hare. But I hadn't read it before. What a joy it was to read it in full and learn that Alice's cat was not the Cheshire Cat but Dinah and that a caterpillar smoked a hookah. Lovely little pocket edition too.
    • 3/5
      Alice, a young potentially schizophrenic British lass, is transported to a world of wonder upon following a white rabbit down the rabbit hole. What follows is a disjointed series of events as Alice explores Wonderland, the world of her dreams. Your reaction to this book probably varies based on where you happen to be on life's journey. A small child may view this is to be an amusing story full of talking animals and fantastical situations. Someone a little further on in their years may view this as a handbook of things not to do. For example, if there is a cup on a table with a sign that says "drink me"... don't. If there is a piece of cake next to aforementioned drink with a sign that says "eat me"... don't. Aside from Alice's somewhat poor decision making skills, this is a fun children's classic that everyone should read at least once.
    • 4/5
      Written as if the writer is on an acid trip, this book is wonderful and frightening at the same time. Rereading it as an adult has made me realize why I was so scared as a child. Alice, The White Rabbit, The Red Queen, The Mad Hatter....all these characters come to life in great detail and description. I would recomend this to anyone who has seen the many movies made. It's strange, wonderful and fun all in one.
    • 5/5
      This novel and its' counterpart, Through the Looking Glass, form a unique portrayal of fantasy that can be enjoyed by both children and adults. Adults may also appreciate the wonderful wordplay and levels of humor that make these books classics. As a result, Lewis Carroll has been one of my favorites for more than fifty years.
    • 5/5
      I like this story very much! I want to go the wonderland.And I want to see Alice!
    • 2/5
      I had a terrible time trying to read this as a kid. It made no sense to me at all, and I didn't enter into the spirit of the nonsense one bit -- I thought it was all incredibly stupid, and I couldn't understand the fuss at all. This time, trying to read it for a class, I found it more of interest just because I was thinking about the way it's constructed, the audience, the themes which I think do come through the nonsense. (For example, the issue of identity is undeniable, with Alice constantly wondering whether she's the same person as she was the day before.)But I'm afraid I still don't feel particularly enthusiastic. It really does seem to be nonsense mostly for the sake of nonsense, in many ways, and I've never got on with that.
    • 4/5
      Really a children's book, but I love the imaginative story telling and the whimsical dialogue. None of the films have ever done it justice. If you only know this tale through movies, do yourself a favor and read the book. Better yet, read it to a child ;-)
    • 5/5
      The author of this book was either crazy or a genius, maybe both as they tend to walk in pairs.
      Well, this is a classic fable set in a fantasy world where everything could happen. There are so many extravagant characters that you'll lose count. It's is impossible not to fall in love with this book.
      I think I'll rename one of my cats Cheshire.
    • 5/5
      I love this book! I remember my parents reading me this book when I was young. I read it for myself when I was around ten and it's still one of my favorite books to this day. I think the reason I love this book so much may be more for sentimental reasons, however, it is defiantly a book that everyone should read at least once.
    • 5/5
       This classic is written in an advanced style of language that requires a higher reading level, but the writing isn't stilted even though it's written in the old classical style. This original quality of this work is a quite good use of literary device that manages to bring us into Wonderland, as we experience some of the older and even archaic poems that Alice is required to recite. The writing quality carries Carroll's brilliance of this tale deeper into our hearts. We feel a difference in the character attributes even for those of us who know the story fairly well, in how they have been revealed to us. Alice we are shown is full of wonder in a way that is both inquisitive and adaptable. We don't see evidence of her 'temper' as it's been claimed she has one in prior film tellings of this work. The Mad Hatter we see as testing Alice, because he is both characterized as obnoxious and goading. The Chesire Cat, becomes more of a friend to Alice than he was before given credit for. The White Rabbit, is both kind of mean in the way Alice describes him as being far too busy to care about anything other than himself. I would say that this version with all of it's layers such as the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon help us see things in Wonderland much more clearly; vs. how we may have thought things were just one dimensional before.
    • 5/5
      Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"is an adventurous tale about Alice and her dilemmas in Wonderland, and her journey to get back home. Alice begins chasing a talking rabbit. Curiosity gets the best of her when she falls down a large hole in the ground while following the rabbit. This hole in the ground is somewhat of a portal to another land, a strange land. She finds herself not being big enough to enter through certain doors, and she finds her self too big to enter some doors. Ultimately, she depends on potions to regulate her size through out Wonderland. She meets many strange characters such as the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, The Rabbit, and the Queen, along with many other strange characters as well. For the most part, Alice finds herself in many compromising positions and finds she just wants to go home. Finally when she makes it home, the reader finds that Alice had been dreaming the entire time. This novel is one of my favorite books of all time. After being assigned this book in the 8th grade, I've read it at least once every two years. When we read this book in class, my teacher made some interesting connections between the character Alice and real life teenagers. We talked about Alice's inability to find the right body size and being uncomfortable with her body throughout her journey. This related to teenagers today because it seems as though teenagers are always trying to change their image or physical appearance to fit in. Also, the connection between Wonderland's chaotic, fast paced ways and real life. Nothing is predicable and anything can happen. This is just like life in some ways. While reading this book in a middle school setting, a teacher could ask the kids to journal about the ways in which they feel they might have in common with Alice.
    • 4/5
      Together with Through the Looking Glass, I've read Lewis Carroll many times. The early illustrations, by Tenniel, are often ugly, but still give a better feel to the story than the Disney film. The Jabberwocky remains a favorite poem, demonstrating the difference between the feel of a poem and its sense. There are many levels in this book.
    • 3/5
      While the story is creative, it is also a lot of nonsense. Albeit is supposed to be a dream, it is rather bizarre. I find it odd that the story has such renown. I mildly recommend this book mainly for the value of being familiar with the story because it is so well known.
    • 5/5
      Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Arthur Dobson, a gentlemen reputed to like VERY little girls and who woiuld probably be photographed and put among the "unclean" today. This is arguably the most imaginative childhood story ever written that does not involve violence (the Red Queen is no exception! She yells off with their heads" a lot, but note she never actually does it.
    • 4/5
      I genuinely do not know if I've read this book before because I have such vivid memories of a TV adaptation which follows it almost exactly. Nothing at all like the Disney film - much darker and weirder (like the book, really).
    • 3/5
      no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't get past thinking that this book just really wasn't written for children. It was so frustrating...everyone was so mean to Alice.
    • 4/5


      Alice in Wonderland might have been the world most reinterpreted work in every form of living history. While I love the interpretative works like ABC's Once Upon A Time, SyFy's Alice, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and such, unfortunately, it's one of my most hated Disney movie of all time despite it is one of a setting of Square-Enix's Kingdom Heart which I used to like playing it.

      Alice's Adventure in Wonderland started when the curious Alice who followed a rattled rabbit in waistcoat into a whole that leads to a place where she called Wonderland. She had the most curious response to her environment and tried logically to make sense of her surroundings. She met with countless of creatures of all shapes and sizes. She did however shapeshifted to various shapes and sizes from eating and drinking things in the nonsense world.

      Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was a mathematician and to me, it was evident that he uses applied mathematics and probabilities in his plots despite the confusion in story progressions and the deux es machina nature of the book. He added puzzles and contradicting poems and often offering questions and dialogues to an other ignorant audience. In what probably an attempt to elevate himself in a way that no one could comprehend his inner joke that I need The Annotated Alice to make sense what it is. Well, thats what I think....

      I would say the most content that you get from the book was from the characters in it. There are also a bulk of poetry and riddles that occupied the book that made the premise sounded like the "Inception" within a story. The bulk of what AiW meaningful were the multitudes of intriguing characters and unpredictable qualities of all of them which are interesting even when you see them being caricatured in every sort of ways. That is why the reinterpretation of the characters are very appealing to me.

      From the first chapter, I was surprised that I do feel similarities with myself and Alice in the book. She's curious, she actually contradicted herself like I do all the time. She sees the world as dull and she's attracted to intelligent things that when she's unable to rationalize the things that were happening, she came out with interesting solutions. For the story of a little girl, she's quite intelligent for her age. She is rational and intuitive and fearless. I guess it explained why the Disney interpretation of Alice gave me an unsubtle intense dislike because the animation seemed to fit in the perception of woman and superficial Disney princess in the 50s and not the book. I have taken a liking with the 2010's version but Alice is very similar to the ones in the animation that it came off as bland and dull despite interesting casts.

      Had the book came without its attached illustrative etching from Sir John Tenniel, one would have some problem in the settings of the book. I do find Wonderland were up to the interpretation of people who want to view it. And in my mind eyes, unlike the characters residing in it, Wonderland is much less of a vibrant and bleak country like the differences with the romance of the south and the industrialize north of England like the setting of Victorian era's "North and South" novel. In a sense the realism Carroll tried to emulate by refusing to humanize the characters and giving them an anthropomorphic qualities and comical portrayals in the illustrations. However if you think of applied mathematical in a way, what seems illogical to a rational mind is in fact dependent on the perceptions that it would have been logical in irrational beings.

      For all it tries to be, Alice in Wonderland may be short but its wealth of questions lingered in millions of readers that made the book in some ways; immortal.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely love this book. It's complete nonsense of course, but that's the great thing about it. Alice, a little girl, falls down a rabbit hole and enters Wonderland, filled with talking animals and strange creatures, and a pack of cards that has a life of its own. It's a dream, and like most dreams it makes absolutely no sense at all. It was one of my favourite books as a child, so I decided to re-read it after 30 odd years, and I'm glad I did. It made me laugh out loud.
    • 4/5
      There are probably enough reviews in the world about Alice in Wonderland for it not to need another one. There's no plot to speak of, but it's worth reading if only for all the cultural references that you won't really get if you don't - the mad hatter, the Cheshire cat, the caucus race, the knave of hearts, down the rabbit-hole, and all the rest. Like the bible, only not quite so archaic and much more fun.
    • 3/5
      I should have read this at an earlier age. As it was, I enjoyed this most just after waking, or sometime before my first cup of coffee. You know how it is. After a cup of coffee, you start to want things to make sense.
    • 3/5
      Okay, I admit it, I'd read Alice. But to my defense there really wasn't anything new that I had seen in cartoons and films. A cute little story but maybe a bit violent for kids?
    • 4/5
      This is the traditional story of Alice, who falls through the rabbit whole and ends up in Wonderland where she runs into all kinds of characters and adventures. Once we realize that Alice’s adventure is only a dream we see through her sister that Wonderland is actually in the Farm yard all around them if only they close their eyes and imagine.I’ve always enjoyed the story of Alice in Wonderland with all the unexpected characters. It doesn’t matter what version of the book is read, the book is a celebration of a child’s imagination.I would use this book to introduce creative writing in my English class with 3rd or 4th graders. This story can also be used in Science to discuss the human body and how it grows.
    • 4/5
      From an educational standpoint I do not see Alice in Wonderland fitting into any lesson plan. Lewis Carroll's tale went against the norm of the Victorian Age and created a new heroin in Alice. She is an innocent, unmoved character that children of all kinds will love to read on her silly adventures. Alice goes through a series of events in her dream that do not get her anywhere nor develop her in anyway. Alice purely overcomes Wonderland and it's nonsense. Children can find a sense of reassurance and identity in Alice's story by her ability to overcome Wonderland. A fun tale to read at night, but education wise for children I do not see it's purpose in a classroom. But for a classroom full of college student's Alice is fun to read in to and pick apart.
    • 5/5
      I see something new in this book every time I re-read it.
    • 4/5
      I was a bit disappointed by this version of the book since it was abridged and also didn't include the drawings. However, it is still a delightful story of traveling to a bizarre land where time, space and size are interchangeable, and the characters are amusing and memorable. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland after so many years!
    • 3/5
      I downloaded the classic Alice in Wonderland onto my iPhone - an iPad would have been nicer to read it on! But I did enjoy reading it in the car, in waiting rooms, etc. My daughter also read the story and then we downloaded the audiobook which she listened to in the car the entire way home from Vancouver. I hadn't read this book in a very long time and did miss the pictures in the format I read it in. It is an amazing and almost eerie wonderful children's story.