This picture book adaptation of Carroll's novel is okay. It's certainly not a patch on the original, but it's been so cut down for length that this is not really a surprise... the overall effect is a little jarring, as Alice bounces from adventure to adventure almost every page. The artwork's decent enough but not particularly outstanding, and the main surprise for me was how much I expected it to be different. The blue-dress-Alice-band version of Alice has so percolated through my brain that it's sort of set in concrete there. This girl in a pink dress is a perfectly valid interpretation, but even so I can't help but think of her as wrong!!!

Even for kids, I'd go with the original over this. Alice is so kid-friendly anyway that even younger readers could appreciate it if it were read to them, I think.