Through the LookingGlass

2009 Grammy NomineeBest Spoken Word Album for Children This 1872 sequel to Alices Adventures in Wonderland finds Carrolls inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological characters when she becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nurseryrhyme characters.