For over a hundred years children and adults all over the world have enjoyed the stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. How these books came to be written is as fascinating a story as those in the books themselves. Alice's adventures grew out of a unique and magic relationship between Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church and the Revd. Charles Dodgson (who took the pseudonym Lewis Carroll), a mathematics lecturer at the college. This shy bachelor don, who spent forty-seven years of his life at Christ Church, was never happier than when in the company of children and entering whole-heartedly into their world. He revelled in their naïve sayings and shrewd observations and shared the imaginative realism of their make-believe. Alice, whose favourite phrase was "Let's pretend", was the ideal child friend to stimulate his own genius for make -believe.