chapter 1- down the rabbit hole
Down the Rabbit Hole Many parents find that Alice is pretty tricky to read out aloud – and for good reason.
The voice shifts subtly all the time between Alice and the narrator. Incredible fancies and whimsies fly around the head of Alice, while the events of Wonderland are even more out of the way. Reality
slips down the middle somewhere. We have high hopes that listeners
of all ages, including dedicated fans of Alice, will enjoy this reading by Natasha very much.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,’
thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?’
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether
the pleasure of making a
daisy-chain would be worth the trouble
of getting up and
picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice
think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to
itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought
it over
afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have
wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural);
but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-
POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to
her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never
before seen a rabbit with
either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the
field after it, and
fortunately was just in time to see it pop
down a large
rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
and then dipped suddenly
down, so suddenly that Alice had not a
moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself
falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she
had plenty of time as she went
down to look about her and to
wonder what was going to
happen next. First, she tried to look
down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to
