#101 in Middle grade
Through the Looking-Glass
- 126
- Pages
- about 2.5 h
- Reading time
- Film 1951 +10
- On screen
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Our view
“Through the Looking-Glass” is a short, playful sequel that sets Alice in a chessboard world where logic runs backwards. Its charm lies in the nonsense verse, the odd tales told along the way and a heroine who meets every strange creature with calm confidence. Some readers find themselves more taken with it than with her first adventure. For anyone, young or adult, who enjoys wordplay and invention for their own sake.
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About the book
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. It is the sequel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), in which many of the characters were anthropomorphic playing cards. In this second novel the theme is chess. As in the earlier book, the central figure, Alice, enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a large looking-glass into a world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just as in a reflection, things are reversed, including logic.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 11 times — from 1933 to 2021.
- FilmAlice in WonderlandIMDb
- FilmAlice in WonderlandIMDb
- FilmAlice Through the Looking GlassIMDb
- FilmAlice's Adventures in WonderlandIMDb
- FilmAlice in WonderlandIMDb
- TV filmAlice in WonderlandIMDb
- FilmAlice in the Land in the Other Side of the MirrorIMDb
- FilmAlice in WonderlandIMDb
- FilmAlice Through the Looking GlassIMDb
- FilmAlice, Through the LookingIMDb
- TV filmAlice Through the Looking GlassIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 424 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 74% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Middle grade average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 62 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 362 | 85% |
Frequently asked
What age is Through the Looking-Glass for?
Through the Looking-Glass sits on the Middle grade shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 8–12. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 126 pages — shorter than 98% of the ranked books in Middle grade.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
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