Alice in Wonderland
Alice follows a hurrying white rabbit down a rabbit hole and tumbles into Wonderland, where she shrinks and grows, shares a topsy-turvy tea party, and plays the silliest game of croquet before waking softly by the river. A gentle bedtime journey through the most beloved nonsense in the world.
Source of the text · Freely adapted by Plume from the novel by Lewis Carroll (1865) — public domain.
The White Rabbit
It is a warm afternoon. Alice is sitting on the grassy riverbank, leaning against her sister. The sun is soft. The water makes little lapping sounds. Alice's eyes are growing heavy.
Then something small and white flashes past. It is a rabbit. But not just any rabbit. This rabbit is wearing a tiny blue waistcoat. He has a pocket watch, and he pulls it out and stares at it with very wide eyes.
'Oh my ears and whiskers,' he says, 'I am going to be so terribly late!' And off he runs, his little feet pattering on the ground.
Alice blinks. A rabbit with a waistcoat? A rabbit with a watch? She simply has to know where he is going. She jumps up and runs after him, right to the edge of a large rabbit hole under the roots of an old tree. She peeks in. She leans a little further. And then — whoops — she falls in.
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