- Who is it for?
- Ages 10–14
- How long is it?
- 29 min
- What does it include?
- Synced read-along and a quiz
- What does it cost?
- Premium access in Emma's Library
About this audiobook
Stepping through the looking-glass, Alice finds a house and garden where you must run to stay in one place and walk backward to go forward. The Red Queen sets her on the chessboard as a pawn, promising she'll be a queen if she reaches the eighth square. Square by square she goes — past the fat quarrelling twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee and their poem of the Walrus and the Carpenter, past Humpty Dumpty balanced on his wall, past a battling Lion and Unicorn, and safest of all with the kindly, clumsy White Knight who keeps falling off his horse. At the last square a golden crown drops on her head; but the wild coronation feast turns to chaos, Alice seizes the Red Queen — and wakes, holding her kitten, wondering whose dream it all was.
Why it's worth a listen
Alice climbs through the drawing-room mirror into a world where everything runs backward and the whole land is a giant chessboard — and she is a white pawn who can win her way to becoming a queen. It is the second Wonderland: dreamier and wittier, with talking flowers, a Red Queen who runs to stay still, an egg named Humpty Dumpty who pays words extra to mean what he likes, and a gentle, tumbling White Knight you will not forget. And it turns on the question this telling leaves you with: if life moves you along square by square, whether you like it or not, how do you become who you mean to be?
What listeners will learn
Subjects: literature, storytelling, historical imagination.
- character
- setting
- conflict
- choice
- consequence
- theme
- retelling
- through
- looking
- glass
Questions for after listening
- Retell the central conflict in order.
- Name one important choice and what happened because of it.
- How did the setting or tradition shape the story?
A question to keep
If life moves you along square by square, whether you like it or not, how do you become who you mean to be?
Chapters
- The Silver Mist and the Looking-Glass
- The Garden of Live Flowers and the Running Queen
- Tweedledee, Tweedledum, and the Walrus
- The Great Fall and the Royal Beasts
- The Knight of Inventions and the Golden Crown
- A Question to Keep
Editorial review
Quality reviewed · 98/100 on . Certificate EL-9E17-B720 is bound to the exact narrated script.
The review checks factual care, audience fit, teaching quality, structure, tone and source honesty. Read the editorial standards.
Published 2026-07-11 · Updated
