For adults, Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories are a delicious satire of those with ego and power who assume the authority to make rules. They then enforce them with complete indifference to logic or fairness.

 

It’s also delightfully playful.

 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland came out in 1865, and children loved the story.

Adults kept reading it while not being entirely sure why a book about talking animals and a tyrannical queen felt so significant.

 

Alice was a heroine who questioned everything.

Who asked a world that kept trying to define her, "Who in the world am I?"

Who looked at the nonsensical authority of the Queen of Hearts and did not simply obey.

 

Alice’s story has been translated into 174 languages and never gone out of print in 160 years.

 

Bring your world-weary adult self (and the rebellious child still alive in you) to see why.

It’s a story grown-ups will grasp most fully.

Any children you bring will love it for a very different set of reasons than yours.