Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Sitting with her older sister on a bank, and feeling rather sleepy and bored, Alice suddenly spots a White Rabbit with a pocket watch and waistcoat hurrying by, lamenting that he is late. Surprised, Alice follows him down a rabbit hole, which sends her into a lengthy fall. Landing safely, she finds herself inside a room where she discovers a key to a tiny door, beyond which is a garden. While pondering how to fit through the door, she notices a bottle labelled "Drink me". Alice drinks some of the contents and, to her astonishment, shrinks small enough to enter the door. However, she had left the key on a table and is now unable to reach it. She finds and eats a cake labelled "Eat me", which causes her to grow to a tremendous size. Distraught, Alice bursts into tears. As she cries, the White Rabbit rushes past, dropping a fan and gloves. Alice uses the fan to cool herself down, which causes her to shrink once more and leaves her swimming in a pool of her own tears. There she meets various animals and birds, who convene on a bank and engage in a "Caucus Race" to dry themselves. Alice inadvertently frightens the animals away by mentioning her cat.

Mistaking her for his maidservant, the White Rabbit orders Alice to go to his house and retrieve his lost gloves and fan. Alice finds another bottle and drinks from it, causing her to grow to such an extent that she gets stuck in the house. Attempting to extract her, the White Rabbit and his neighbours eventually take to hurling pebbles that turn into small cakes. Alice eats one and shrinks herself, allowing her to flee into the forest. She meets a Caterpillar seated on a mushroom and smoking a hookah. Under the Caterpillar's questioning, Alice begins to admit to her current identity crisis, compounded by her inability to remember a poem. Before crawling away, the Caterpillar says that a bite of one side of the mushroom will make her larger, while a bite from the other side will make her smaller. During a period of trial and error, Alice's neck extends between the treetops, frightening a pigeon who mistakes her for a serpent. After shrinking to an appropriate height, Alice arrives at the home of a Duchess, who owns a perpetually grinning Cheshire Cat. The Duchess's baby, whom she hands to Alice, transforms into a piglet, which Alice releases into the woods. The Cheshire Cat appears to Alice and directs her toward the Hatter and March Hare before disappearing, leaving his grin behind. Alice finds the Hatter, March Hare, and a sleepy Dormouse in the middle of a tea party. The Hatter explains that it is always 6 p.m. (tea time) – the consequence of his having quarrelled with Time. Unable to answer the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing desk?", and considering the company rude, Alice walks off, declaring "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!"

Noticing a door in a tree, Alice passes through and finds herself back in the room from the beginning of her journey. She takes the key and opens the door to the garden, which turns out to be the croquet court of the Queen of Hearts, whose guard consists of living playing cards. Alice participates in a croquet game, in which hedgehogs are used as balls, flamingos are used as mallets, and soldiers act as hoops. The Queen is short-tempered, constantly ordering beheadings. When the Cheshire Cat's lone head appears, the Queen orders its beheading, an act which appears impossible in the absence of a body from which to sever it. Alice prompts the Queen to release the Duchess, now in prison.
Alice meets a Gryphon and a Mock Turtle, who dance to the Lobster Quadrille while Alice recites (rather incorrectly) a poem. The Mock Turtle sings "Beautiful Soup", during which the Gryphon drags Alice away for a trial, in which the Knave of Hearts stands accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. The trial is conducted by the King of Hearts, and the jury is composed of animals that Alice previously met. Alice gradually grows in size and confidence, allowing herself increasingly frequent remarks on the irrationality of the proceedings. The Queen eventually commands Alice's beheading, but Alice scoffs that her guard is only a pack of playing cards. The cards rise up into the air and come swarming down upon her.
Alice wakes from her dream to find her sister brushing leaves from her face. Alice tells her about her adventures, then runs in for her tea, leaving her sister on the bank to imagine all the curious happenings for herself.