A little girl named Alice is sitting bored on a riverbank when a white rabbit in a waistcoat runs past, looking at his pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and falls for what feels like miles. At the bottom she drinks from a bottle marked DRINK ME, shrinks to ten inches tall, and finds herself in a world where every rule of logic has been politely inverted.
Lewis Carroll — really an Oxford mathematician named Charles Dodgson — first told the story to a real Alice Liddell on a boat trip in 1862. He wrote it down at her request and published it in 1865. Across twelve short chapters Alice meets the Caterpillar smoking on a mushroom, the Cheshire Cat fading into a grin, the Hatter and the March Hare at their tea party, and the Red Queen who shouts Off with their heads!
Carroll wrote in clean Victorian English with a mathematician's love of logical play. Storica's A2+ adaptation keeps the famous scenes (the rabbit hole, the caucus race, the tea party, the croquet game, the trial) and brings them to A2+ vocabulary across twenty-five chapters.
Carroll's English is simpler than most readers remember. Sentences run short. The vocabulary is concrete — rabbit, watch, table, key, garden, queen — and most of the strangeness comes from situation and dialogue, not rare words. A2+ readers (past, present, future, light idiom) can read Alice and follow the jokes.
Late elementary. You can read longer chapters with light support. Past, present, and future tenses are comfortable. Idioms still trip you up.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally written in English, but you choose your reading language when you start.
A2+. Late elementary. You can read longer chapters with light support. Past, present, and future tenses are comfortable. Idioms still trip you up.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is rated A2+, so we'd suggest starting with one of our A0 or A1 books first if you're brand-new to your target language. Check our shelf at /library/ — the readers there are short, gentle, and built specifically for week one.
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