Down the Rabbit Hole (510 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle)

On July 4, 1862, Charles Dodgson, a mathematician from Oxford, went on a boat trip up the Thames with his friend, Reverend Robinson Duckworth, Alice Liddell, and her two sisters, the daughters of the dean of Christ Church. To entertain the girls, Dodgson began a fantastical tale about a young girl and her adventures in a world of make-believe. There had been similar trips before, with similar tales soon forgotten. But on this occasion, the middle sister, 10-year-old Alice Liddell, insisted that Dodgson write it all down.  The next day, he began writing the story that he would give to Alice as a Christmas gift in November 1864. A year later, the book was published by Macmillan under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll and with illustrations by John Tenniel.  Academics have struggled to explain why Alice became popular and made waves in children's literature.  How does a world with a disappearing cat, crazy queen, and smoking caterpillar capture and hold readers' imaginations, young and old, fr