Gemma Arterton reads Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Famous Fiction) characters

Appears from the start

An imaginative and forthright child who follows a waistcoated rabbit down a hole and enters a place where size, language, and manners continually change. She tries to apply the lessons and social rules she knows, but curiosity repeatedly draws her farther into Wonderland.

Appears from the start

A hurried white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and carrying a watch. His alarm about being late first draws Alice underground, and his dropped fan and gloves give her an early reason to explore.

First appears in chapter 2

A touchy creature Alice meets while both are swimming in the pool made by her tears. He dislikes her innocent talk about cats and dogs but agrees to tell his history once everyone reaches shore.

First appears in chapter 3

A solemn bird who takes charge after the animals escape the pool. He organizes a shapeless race so everyone can dry off and declares every participant a winner.

Also known as Bill

First appears in chapter 4

A lizard employed by the White Rabbit. He is sent down a chimney when the suddenly enormous Alice becomes trapped in the Rabbit's house, with an abrupt result for the reluctant helper.

First appears in chapter 5

A blue caterpillar seated on a mushroom and smoking a hookah. He questions Alice about who she is, challenges her recitation, and gives reserved but useful advice about how the mushroom affects her height.

First appears in chapter 6

A noblewoman whose crowded kitchen is filled with pepper, noise, and disorder. She thrusts a howling baby into Alice's care while treating violence and argument as ordinary household behavior.

First appears in chapter 6

The Duchess's grinning cat, able to vanish gradually and sometimes leave only its smile behind. Calm amid Wonderland's disorder, it directs Alice toward the March Hare and the Hatter while insisting that madness is universal there.

Also known as Mad Hatter

First appears in chapter 7

A hat-maker occupying a perpetual tea party with the March Hare and Dormouse. He answers questions with riddles, quarrels over conversational rules, and explains that his dispute with Time has left the table fixed at tea-time.

First appears in chapter 7

The Hatter's excitable companion at a crowded tea table. He offers Alice nonexistent wine, contradicts ordinary etiquette, and joins the Hatter in interrupting both their guest and the Dormouse.

First appears in chapter 7

A sleepy member of the tea party, used as a cushion by his companions and repeatedly roused to tell a wandering story about three sisters living at the bottom of a well.

Also known as Queen of Hearts

First appears in chapter 8

Wonderland's furious queen, instantly recognizable to the card courtiers and gardeners. She answers mistakes and disagreement with orders for beheading and dominates the croquet ground through fear rather than fair rules.

Also known as King of Hearts

First appears in chapter 8

The Queen's milder husband, who follows her through the croquet ground and quietly tries to reduce the damage caused by her sentences. His authority appears secondary to hers.

First appears in chapter 9

A creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. At the Queen's direction, he escorts Alice to hear the Mock Turtle's history and impatiently keeps the melancholy speaker moving.

First appears in chapter 9

A sorrowful creature who claims a youth as a real turtle and describes an undersea school. He and the Gryphon explain their lessons and demonstrate the Lobster Quadrille for Alice.