Alice in Wonderland

After the work of Lewis Carroll. Short version by Contesdefees.com. Illustrations by John Tenniel (1820-1914).

On a hot summer afternoon, Alice sat by the river and daydreamed. She was about to doze off when suddenly she saw a white rabbit walk past her wearing an elegant velvet jacket and looking very hurriedly at his watch all the time.

– I’m late! – Said the rabbit suddenly looking at his watch.

Intrigued, Alice followed him for a while until he disappeared into a burrow. Without thinking, she entered after him and suddenly fell down a long shaft that eventually led to a room that had many tiny, closed doors. The rabbit was no longer there.

In the center of the room there was a glass table and on this table was a golden key. Alice took the key and tried to open all the doors until one of them finally opened.

On the other side she saw a beautiful garden but the door was too small for her to pass through. She closed the door and put the key back on the table.

She then looked back at the table and saw a bottle with “Drink me” written on it. She drank a few drops, and suddenly began to shrink. She became so small that she could now walk through the garden gate. But then she realized that she had forgotten the key on the table and that she couldn’t reach it now that she was tiny.

Now she could see under the table, and she discovered a small box containing a cake and on which was written: “Eat me”. Alice bit into a piece of the cake and began to grow and grow until she was about three meters tall and banged her head on the ceiling. But of course, now she couldn’t go to the garden and that made her cry. Giant tears were running down her cheeks.

Just then, the white rabbit reappeared in the room with a pair of white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other.

“The duchess will be angry if I make her wait! – he said.

– Mr. Rabbit! Please wait a moment – shouted Alice.

But the rabbit ran away at full speed. So much so that he dropped his white gloves and fan.

Since it was so hot in the rabbit hole, Alice picked up the rabbit fan and began to fan herself with it. Realizing she was getting small again, she quickly released it before it was too late. She tried again to retrieve the key from the table, but she slipped and suddenly found herself up to her chin in salt water.

But this was not salt water. It was the pool of tears she had produced earlier while crying! Soon the pond was filled with all kinds of animals: a mouse, birds, a duck and even a dodo…

They began to swim together and reached the edge of the pond. Since they were all soaked and wanted to dry off, the dodo suggested a fun game: everyone had to run in circles and stop when they wanted to. Alice thought it was a bit of a strange game, but since they all won, it was fun.