Author: Lewis Carroll / Walt Disney
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Illustrator: Walt Disney
Publisher: Gold Key
Year: 1965
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Modern fantasy, Adventure, Literary nonsense
Reading Level: Self-Extending
Interest-Level: Elementary, Middle School
Topics: Fantasy, animals, adventure, exploration, quest
Summary: In Walt Disney’s version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds herself one minute reading with her sister, to the next, following a talking Rabbit and falling down a rabbit hole. Once at the bottom she enters in to the world know as Wonderland and embarks on a journey of talking animals, plants, and mischief people. In order to leave, she must first encounter the rabbit who led her to this world, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, talk to a disappearing Chesire Cat, smell an awful lot of smoke from a Caterpillar, celebrate at an un-birthday party with the Madhatter, and then conquer the mean Queen of Hearts.
Extension Activities:
Pre activity: cut out pieces of felt to put together the Madhatter’s hat for each kid. There should be a circle for the top, an outline of a circle for the brim, and a rectangle for the main piece of the hat.
-Provide different color pieces of felt, feathers, glitter, paper, and any other things for the children to decorate with.
-Let each student pick to colors of felt to make a Madhatter’s hat.
-Help students put the hat together by gluing or stapling the pieces of felt together.
-Once the hats are together, let the children decorate them any way they want to create their own Madhatter’s hat!
