Having grown up watching the Disney movie version, I enjoyed reading the book and learning how it differed from the story I knew. That said, I was disappointed that a few of my favorite story elements were not from the book, including my favorite bit of ridiculousness: The Walrus and the Carpenter. Thankfully, I visited with a friend the morning I finished the book and she happened to be a big fan of the original story. She let me know that the movie's plot was a hybrid of the book I read and the sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. So, I immediately ordered that book from the library. More about that in a bit.

Time to finish what I started. So many things from the movie were taken from this book! My favorite, the aforementioned The Walrus and the Carpenter poem, mannerisms from the Red Queen which were combined for the movie version of the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the talking flowers, etc. In general, I wasn't as thrilled with this book's overall plot as the first one, but watching for the elements I knew from the movie was entertaining.