Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation

Alice's Adventures in wonderland is a adventures fairytale about a girl named Alice who falls into a rabbit hole and finds a new exiting world. This book will expand the imagination of the reader and will surprise the reader with every page. This book would be a great read for a 3ed grade level readers and will challenge their vocabulary.

Summary: It is about a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world, which is wonderland. There she meets a talking, coat wearing rabbit, a smoking caterpillar, a cat who can disappear, a mad hatter, and the evil Queen of Hearts.

Personal Reflection: I loved that this book was a pop-up book; it made the book fun to flip through. I’ve always enjoyed the story of Alice in Wonderland and being that it is a pop-up book it made looking at it that much more interesting.

Classroom Extension:
1) Since this is a pop-up book I would definitely have students tell me something they remembered about the story.
2) Have students draw their favorite scene from the book. ( )

The picture book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is written by, Lewis Carroll. This illustrated fiction book really opens up your imagination. I would choose this book for ages younger than middle school. In order to be able to get into this book I believe you must have an imagination and like to use it. Each page has pop-up pictures. I must admit the illustrations in this book are pretty amazing. If I was going to have this book in my class I wouldn't have it in my class library, but I would keep the copy at my desk. I would do this because the book can be torn up very easily due to all the pop-ups. I don't believe this book will interest middle schoolers due to all the make believe in the story.

I personally love the story of Alice in Wonderland. This book was a lot of fun to just look at and flip through the pages. I think pop-up books in general are magical. They just add a lot to the reading with the 3D images and bring the story to life. It definitely is attractive to kids and makes it more fun for them to enjoy their reading. So I'm all for having pop-up books in school libraries, but I would warn the teachers and librarians of children only having to look at and focus on the images instead of reading the text. My suggestion would be asking the children to write down a summary of the text with what they thought about it and why. ( )

I wouldn't have this in my class for students to read because of how fragile the pop-ups are. I also don't think I would use this as a read aloud because I personally don't care for the tale of Alice and Wonderland all that much. As a result, I don't think I would do the book justice if I tried to read it to my class. ( )