When Alice sees a White Rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch hurrying down a rabbit hole, she follows him without a thought for where she is going, and how she will get home. She finds herself in a world beyond imagination, where she seems never to be the same size for more than five minutes, where riddles have no answers, where playing cards rule, and where no one seems sane or sensible.

In Alice’s quest to find her way home, she meets a cast of unforgettable characters – the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the sleepy Dormouse, the fearsome Queen of Hearts and, of course, the smiling Cheshire Cat. But where is the White Rabbit? And what is he late for? And how will she ever find her way home?

For over 150 years, the story that Lewis Carroll wrote as a celebration of the magical realms of the human imagination has enchanted generations of readers with its memorable characters, passages and verses.

Glorious full-colour illustrations from the Hans Christian Andersen Award-winning artist Robert Ingpen.

‘Ingpen’s drawings are utterly compelling’ – Michael Morpurgo

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, and author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

Lewis Carroll

Robert Ingpen

Robert Ingpen was born in 1936 in Geelong, Australia, and still lives and works nearby in Barwon Heads. In 1986 he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his contribution to children’s literature and he has been honoured with Membership of the Order of Australia.