Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass — Book Club Kit

The printable companion for reading the Tenniel Illustrated Edition together — forty pages for book clubs, families, and classrooms.

INSIDE THE KIT:

• How to use this kit, and a four-meeting reading schedule — two evenings per book, so the trial and the banquet each get their own night

• "Reading it aloud together": the poems read in chorus, the Caucus-Race and the trial staged as mini-plays with parts assigned, a mirror brought to the table for the mirror-written "Jabberwocky," and notes for mixed-age groups

• Who's Who — all sixteen entries, with the Queen of Hearts, the Red Queen, and the White Queen carefully distinguished

• A chapter map of all 24 chapters, plus the 1872 chessboard diagram reproduced as a plate

• The story of this edition: the golden afternoon of 4 July 1862, Alice Liddell, the hand-written Under Ground, the suppressed 1865 first printing, and exactly what this edition restored — the prefatory poem, and all 92 Tenniel plates

• The five explainers, condensed: the parodies decoded with their target poems; the logic and language games; the chess game with Carroll's eleven moves in full; nonsense and Edward Lear; Tenniel and the Dalziel brothers

• A short, factual life of Lewis Carroll

• The period-context note

• Discussion questions in full — 24 chapter sets plus 8 for the whole books, 80 questions, spoiler-fenced by meeting

• "Spot the Plate" — five Tenniel plates printed without captions; find where each belongs (answer key at the back)

• Ruled notes pages

Print as many copies as your group needs. Companion to Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass — The Tenniel Illustrated Edition (eBook), sold separately in this store.

Companion Classics. The novels are public domain; the companion material is © 2026 Horace Harriott Jr.