Booked Out: 5 things from Lewis Carroll’s mad world that remain a wonder forever

One of John Tenniel’s original illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1865). This is the surreal tea party Alice attends. — Public domain

In the three years since I began this column, there have been many times that I was tempted to write about two of my most favourite books of all time: Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and its sequel, Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There.

And yet, I kept putting it off. Even now, I feel strangely unable to fully explain just what about these two books are quite so wonderful for me.