Author(s): Lewis Carroll

Children's Māori Books

He ingoa k rangaranga a Lewis Carroll: Ko Charles Lutwidge Dodgson te ingoa t turu. He kaikauwhau i te P ngarau i Christ Church, Oxford. N te 4 o H rae 1862 ka t mata ai a Dodgson te k rero nei. I te tere waka r tou ko ana hoa hoe i te Awa o Thames. Ko Reverend Robinson Duckworth t r, me Alice Liddell (tekau ng tau), tana tuakana a Lorina (tekau m toru ng tau), me tana teina a Edith (ka waru ng tau), ng tam hine a te Amokapua o Christ Church. Kei te waiata mai i te t matatanga o te pukapuka te whakam rama, n te p nono a ng tamaw hine e toru nei ki t tehi pakim ero ka whakauaua te whakapuakina e Dodgson te t matatanga o te k rero nei. He k rero huna huri noa o te pukapuka m te tokorima nei. N te tau 1865 ka t ngia ai. --- Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author's real name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a rowing boat on the river Thames in Oxford together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen years of age), and Edith (eight years of age). As is clear from the poem at the beginning of the book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story and reluctantly at first he began to tell the first version of the story to them. There are many half-hidden references are made to the five of them throughout the text of the book itself, which was published finally in 1865."