On a snowy November day, Alice climbs through the mirror above the fireplace, the gateway to a weird and wonderful, topsy-turvy world. Books have back-to-front writing, flowers talk and a twisty garden path refuses to lead Alice to where she wants to go. It's a place where you can remember things that haven't happened yet, where you cry out first and prick your finger afterwards. Strangest of all, the entire land is laid out like a giant chessboard, where the pieces are all alive. The Red Queen grants Alice's wish to be part of the game and, starting out as a pawn, she makes her way up the board in the hope of becoming a queen herself. Along the way she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and a unicorn who thinks a child is a fabulous monster! In Lewis Carroll's enchanting fantasy, the bizarre is ordinary, the magical commonplace. `One can't believe impossible things,' says Alice, finding the Looking-glass-land rules very different from the ones she's used to. `I daresay you haven't had much practice,' replies the Queen. `Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'