

Eventually, Alice makes it into the garden which is now full of sunshine. After meeting the Red Queen, Alice sets on a quest to become a queen herself. For you see, just as with Alice in Wonderland where there was a deck of cards, in this story we are on a chess board. Alice is a pawn on the White Queen’s army and has to move to the other end of the board to win her crown.
Along the way, we meet the disturbing, yet wonderful Twiddledee and Twiddledum, who tell us the story of “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” one of my favorite poems in the book.
BJ tells me that the Alice in Wonderland was one of his favorite Disney movies, mostly because of the actors. I mean, can there be a better Mad Hatter than Ed Wynn? By the way, did anyone notice that King Candy in Wreck It, Ralph is a total homage to Wynn’s Hatter? When as a kid, BJ figured out that that both the Walrus and the Carpenter were voiced by the same person and was enchanted by the idea. I see the seeds of his later career sprouting, don’t you?

Join BJ Harrison for Through the Looking Glass, and don’t forget to check out his performance of Alice in Wonderland.
And tell us, what’s your favorite part of the story? Are you discovering it for the first time through The Classic Tales? Do you have a favorite movie version or pop culture reference?