Alices adventures in wonderland, A reader for spotlight 6, Carroll L.
All his life, Charles Dodgson loved entertaining children. At the age of 30, he spent a lot of time with the Liddell girls Lorina, Edith and his favourite, Alice. He often photographed them, played ‘nonsense’ games with them, and told them long stones.
On a sunny afternoon in July 1862, Charles Dodgson and a friend took the Liddell girls rowing on the River Thames near Oxford. The children asked Dodgson to tell them a fairy tale, and 10-year-old Alice Liddell said* she hoped the story would have “nonsense” in it. So Dodgson told them an amazing tale, full of nonsense, about a little girl called Alice and her adventures in a magical underground world. Alice liked the story so much that she said, “I wish you would write out Alices adventures for me!”.
