The novel is not nearly as well known as the Alice books.

The overwhelming commercial success of the first Alice book changed Dodgson's life in many ways.

Like many children of the time he was familiar with the Alice books and had read them as a school boy.

I'm wondering, after seeing several adaptations, if the Alice books are even film-able in their original form?

I went home with the Alice books and quickly saw there's not much to dramatize.

Children in the twentieth and this early twenty-first century hated the Alice books, couldn't read them, and why should they?

It is, however, just possible that she may have first read the Alice books in print while on holiday in the town.

The ballad, like almost all of the poems in the Alice books, has no young protagonists, is rather dark, and does not end happily.

I will reread both Alice books on a more or less yearly basis.

It achieved nowhere near the success of the Alice books.