Hi kids! Ms. Booksy here at Cool School!
Today we’re reading about Alice in “Through the Looking Glass”, Chapter 3!
At the end of Chapter 2, Alice had just reached the top of the hill
and saw that the land was divided into squares,
just like a chess board or a checker board!
Let's see what happens next!
Okay, Through the Looking Glass chapter 3
If this is all a big game of chess,
I wonder what piece I could be?
Hm...
I would like to be a Queen, naturally!
Queens can move anywhere on the board
and go farther than any game pieces...
I definitely wouldn’t want to be a pawn!
They can only move one step at a time—boring!
And they can only go forward!
Sometimes you just gotta go side to side...like when you’re line dancing
or playing tennis!
Hmm, I wonder why there are Queens and Kings in chess,
but no princes or princesses!
Anyway, let’s go see if there’s anyone around who can tell me the rules of real-life chess!
Everything looks the same!
Oh! But there’s a train!
Maybe that’s how I get to the next square!
All aboard!
Ticket please!
I don't have a ticket.
Ticket please!
... I still don't have one.
Just give him your ticket!
Um...how about this?
I got it from the Red Queen!
Thank you have a nice day!
Why are you looking at me through binoculars?
Is that better?
Hm...I’m still confused.
How 'bout now?
Have you lost your eyeglasses or something?
I never had any! I’m a butterfly!
And nearly all butterflies are nearly blind!
Oh! I didn't know!
A butterfly with eyeglasses! Who ever heard of such a thing!
But you have... nevermind.
Ticket please!
But I already gave you a cookie!
Ticket please!
And I toooold you I don’t have a ticket.
Well then, you must leave the train!
You want me to jump?
Go ahead and jump! Use your wings!
Easy for you to say, Madame Butterfly!
Oh! Hm...
To stop train, pull here. Okay!
Gotta go, bye!
Looks like I’m in a new chess square!
Okay...where to next?
Oh!... This way to the house of Tweedledum and Tweedledee!
Hey, I’ve heard of them before!
They’re in a nursery rhyme!
Oh! Hi Tweedledee, hello Tweedledum!
If you’re here for our autographs, don’t bother.
We don’t have a pen!
And we DON’T know how to write!
Oh, well, that’s all right. I just came to say hello.
I’m just wandering around this place and you’re the first people I actually know.
Well, you know what I mean...
From the nursery rhyme? That’s all made up pretend stuff!
It’s just silly! Wait...how does it go again?
Allow me!
Not true!
I never even had a rattle!
I’ve never even seen a crow ‘round these parts!
And we don’t get frightened because we are so very brave!
CROW!
Oh wait, brother, that’s just a little butterfly!
Phew! We’re safe!
Good thing you guys are so brave!
So you like poems and rhymes, huh?
Yes! Well, some poems.
I didn’t really get the one about the Jabberwocky
with all the jubjub birds and frabjous joy and whatnot,
and I definitely did NOT like the one about the Knave of Hearts either.
Long story!
Oh, good idea! I’ll read a LONG poem!
I hope it’s not tooo long. I... should probably be going.
Sh! Tweedledee, start the poem!
Ahem!
This is a really good poem,
and Tweedledee is AMAZING at reciting poetry!
What’s that, Tweedledum?
I said you’re amazing at reciting poetry, Tweedledee!
TWEEDLEDEE: Oh, thanks, Tweedledum!
TWEEDLEDUM: No problem, Tweedledee!
ACTION!
What? Oh, oh yes.
Finally...
Sh!
Ladies and Gentlemen! Tweedledee and Tweedledum Productions present:
THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER!
The Walrus and the Carpenter!
Oh, that’s a very fun poem! Let’s go on to Chapter 4 right now so we can hear it!
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