Well I believe it's probably obvious, but if you enjoyed Alice in Wonderland, you're also going to love Through the Looking Glass! So adorable. In this book we finally learn Alice's age, 7 1/2. Some familiar characters, such as the red queen and the red king, reappear, but we get to meet loads of new friends! A white queen and white king, Humpty Dumpty (that's right, he's legit), and many other odd creatures, all of whom seem to have a sort of obsession with fish-related poetry.
Alice's purpose while in the Looking Glass Land is to become a queen. She's in a sort of chess game, starting as a pawn. She has to surpass 8 tiles or stages of her adventure and then she can be crowned a queen. As she begins her journey, she attempts to reach a hill located off in the distance. However, whenever she heads towards the hill, she ends up bumping into the house that she is trying to leave. Of course, in the Looking Glass world, one must walk away from their destination in order to reach it. That's perhaps one of my favorite parts, because it kept me wondering about it for days after I read that situation. I mean, how does one see the progression their making on their destination if they're headed away from it?!
Perhaps her experiences aren't quite as odd as those in Alice in Wonderland. For example, there is no awkward and sudden growing and shrinking. I was rather bummed that we didn't get to meet the Cheshire Cat again (a personal favorite) - with his wide grin that always seemed to stick around for slightly longer than he did. Her entrance into this world is slightly easier, walking through a Looking Glass instead of falling for miles down a rabbit hole.
At the end, we are notified that these adventures were definitely with a dream. But Lewis Carroll wouldn't give us that solid of an ending, would he? Of course not, for we're not sure who was dreaming this dream. Was it a day dream of Alice's, or did it belong to the Slumbering Red King? And what about the kittens she was playing with before her adventures. Did the little black kitten turn into the Red Queen, and it's white sibling turn into the White Queen, and if that's the case, what exactly was Dinah in this long dream?
I give this book FIVE STARS OUT OF FIVE, a quick and easy read full of humor, adventures, and fun. I love when a book can make me laugh outloud, and this one certainly succeeded.
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