Brilliantly odd, highly inventive and very funny, Mini Classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass follow a little girl through topsy-turvy worlds where – to her great dismay – nothing happens as one might expect it to.

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in Cheshire, England, on 27 January 1832. The son of a clergyman, Charles was the eldest boy of eleven children, so he became good at drawing pictures and inventing games, stories and poems to entertain his siblings. On a rowing boat trip one day, Charles made up a story for three children – ten-year-old Alice begged him to write it down. This became Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865. The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, was published in 1871.