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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

66 illustrations · 12 chapters

Chapter 1Through the glass into Looking-glass House

  1. From above, a small Victorian house sits in a snowy garden at dusk, one window glowing
  2. Alice, on the chimney-piece, reaches toward the Looking-glass as it dissolves into mist
  3. A small girl lands on the Looking-glass room hearth and leans toward the blazing fire
  4. Huge Alice kneels over the hearth, watching two tiny royal chess pairs among the cinders
  5. In the dark Tulgey Wood, the vorpal sword leans on the Tumtum tree as eyes of flame glow
  6. Alice glides down the Looking-glass House stairs, fingertips resting on the hand-rail

Chapter 2The Garden of Live Flowers: Alice Becomes a Pawn

  1. In the Looking-glass garden, a tiny girl in blue looks toward the distant green hill
  2. The daisies shout in shrill chorus as the furious Tiger-lily hushes them before Alice
  3. In the Garden of Live Flowers, Alice turns as the Red Queen, now taller, strides along
  4. The towering Red Queen lectures a small, stiff Alice on the gravel walk, finger raised
  5. Alice and the Red Queen look out from the hilltop over the vast chessboard country
  6. The Red Queen drags Alice across the hilltop so fast they seem to skim through the air
  7. Alone by the hilltop tree, Alice gazes at the last peg where the Red Queen vanished

Chapter 3Looking-Glass Insects and the Nameless Wood

  1. From above, the little hill with its single tree rises over a vast chessboard country
  2. On tiptoe, a small girl watches an elephant sip from a cottage-sized flower like a bee
  3. At the engine's shrill scream the railway carriage lifts straight into the air.
  4. Alice sits calmly under a tree while the chicken-sized Gnat fans her from a low twig
  5. Alice and the Gnat gaze at the holly-winged snap-dragon-fly, its raisin head aflame
  6. The Gnat sighs on its twig as two large tears roll down its cheeks after its failed joke
  7. In the nameless wood, Alice strains to remember her name and recalls only the letter L
  8. At the edge of the nameless wood, Alice holds out a careful hand to a dappled fawn
  9. The Fawn leaps away crying that she is a human child, leaving Alice with open arms

Chapter 4Tweedledum and Tweedledee: the dream and the rattle

  1. On the dirt road, Alice reads the collars of two identical round little men under a tree
  2. Alice whirls in a ring with the twins beneath a tree whose branches play like fiddles
  3. The two brothers lead a small girl by both hands toward the sleeping Red King
  4. Tweedledee claps and tells Alice she is only a thing in the sleeping Red King's dream
  5. Held between the twins by the sleeping Red King, Alice protests she is real, in tears
  6. Tweedledum rages over his spoilt rattle as Tweedledee cowers and Alice touches his arm
  7. At dusk, a small girl watches for the crow as two brothers ready a sword and umbrella

Chapter 5Wool and Water

  1. The White Queen rushes at Alice with arms flung wide as Alice holds out the lost shawl
  2. The White Queen rises on her toes, bandaged finger raised, her voice climbing to a squeak
  3. Wool wraps the bleating White Queen as she turns into a sheep, and Alice starts back
  4. Alice leans on the counter of a dim little shop, staring at an old knitting Sheep
  5. The oar sticks in the water and tips Alice backward off her seat into the rushes
  6. In the shop, a small girl tiptoes past a brook as tables and chairs turn into trees

Chapter 6Humpty Dumpty and the meaning of words

  1. From above, a lone grey wall stands in a green clearing, a tiny egg-shaped speck on top
  2. In a bright woodland clearing, Alice points up at the huge egg on the narrow wall
  3. On his narrow wall, Humpty Dumpty declares the question is who is master of words
  4. From high above, a tiny girl in pale blue stops mid-step as the whole forest trembles

Chapter 7The Lion and the Unicorn

  1. A bird's-eye view of the dark wood, meadow, silver brook and road to the distant town
  2. Alice and the White King reach the ring, where dust hides the fighting Lion and Unicorn
  3. Alice smiles up at the Unicorn as he bends down and offers a bargain of mutual belief
  4. A huge, dusty lion yawns mid-riddle, his eyes drifting toward the child by the brook
  5. Alice kneels on the grass with her hands pressed over her ears as the drums roar.

Chapter 8The White Knight and the golden crown

  1. From above, tiny Alice stands in the Seventh Square forest before the Knights arrive
  2. Helmet off, the White Knight combs back his shaggy hair and turns his mild face to Alice
  3. Leaning on a tree, a small girl shades her eyes as the White Knight glows in the low sun
  4. A golden crown rests in Alice's lap, held lightly in her small hands on the evening lawn

Chapter 9Queen Alice: examination and feast

  1. From far above, the small green lawn of the Eighth Square glows in the evening light
  2. Alice sits upright on the lawn as the Red and White Queens snore on her shoulders
  3. Crowned Alice looks up at the arched door lettered QUEEN ALICE, with two bell-handles
  4. Crowned Alice walks up the candlelit hall as about fifty silent guests turn to watch her
  5. At the feast, the Red Queen introduces Alice to the leg of mutton, which rises in its dish and bows.
  6. Starting her speech, the crowned girl is shoved into the air by the two Queens
  7. The White Queen seizes Alice's hair as candles shoot up and bottles fly on plate wings
  8. Alice hauls the table-cloth with both fists and brings the whole banquet crashing down
  9. Crowned Alice grips the doll-sized Red Queen and threatens to shake her into a kitten

Chapter 10Shaking

  1. A tiny crowned figure stands alone at the head of the wrecked Queen Alice feast table
  2. Alice holds up the doll-sized Red Queen, limp and calm, her eyes large and green
  3. Alice shakes the doll-sized Red Queen, who softens into a round, kitten-like bundle

Chapter 11Waking

  1. The drawing room on a snowy afternoon: firelight, falling snow, an empty armchair
  2. The black kitten sits upright on the hearth rug as the drowsy girl dozes behind her

Chapter 12Which Dreamed It?

  1. A warm window glows in the Victorian house on a quiet snowy evening
  2. Laughing, Alice kneels on the hearth-rug and kisses the stiff little black kitten
  3. Alice, propped on one elbow on the hearth-rug, questions Kitty, who licks her paw
  4. A winding golden stream at low July sun, with a tiny boat dissolving into the glow.