My Favorite Summer Book

My favorite summer reading book this year was definitely Through The Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll. It's the sequel to Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and its about a young girl named Alice who dreams of jumping through a mirror into a house on the other side and all the adventures she has in there and the creatures

Alice meeting Humpty Dumpty (before he falls)

she meets.

In the beginning of the book, Alice figures out that throughout the looking-glass world it is a big chess game. Alice finds out that if she gets to the eighth square, she can become a queen. Along the way, she meets hysterical characters, such as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the unicorn and the lion, Humpty Dumpty, the old sheep, the White Queen and the Red Queen, the Jabberwocky, the White Knight, and many more.

My favorite part was when Alice first goes into the garden of the looking-glass house and she meets all the flowers and Alice asks them why they can talk and they say that all flowers can talk. The Tiger Lily explains "in most gardens, they make the beds too soft- so that the flowers are always asleep. Thats why they never talk." I love this because its such a smart funny way of saying that flowers are alive.

To conclude, Through The Looking-glass was my favorite book this summer because it was funny, creative, fantastical, and challenging. There was tons of vocabulary and old fashioned uses of English words such as 'tis' and 'thy' and were hard to understand. But overall, I had a lot of fun reading the book.