When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.

She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn’t as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems.

Some of these poems, such as “The Walrus and the Carpenter” and “Jabberwocky”, are as famous as the Alice stories themselves. In many ways, this sequel has had an even greater impact on today’s pop culture than the first book.