Steven Sater

Alice and her childhood friend, Alfred, escaped the London Bombings of WWII into the underground train tunnels. Before the war, they spent their time together telling one another their version of the Alice in Wonderland story. Alice being Alice and Alfred was of course the White Rabbit. Alice and Alfred coped with the war by becoming the characters in the story, but will they be able to finish their story before Alfred’s time runs out?

This book is recommended for readers in grades 7 to 12. The vocabulary and content is above the typical Alice in Wonderland reader. Older readers will be able to see the symbolism and make the connections between the two intertwining stories.… (mehr)

I guess if I'd read the number of pages I wouldn't have been as disappointed. I already have Spring Awakening: In the Flesh, which has all the lyrics (also in this book). Even WITH the lyrics, the book is under 80 pages and they're small pages. Somehow, I pictured the book taking over a half hour to read.

The only thing that took a while was listening to Touch Me and checking that though I have two books with the lyrics NEITHER of those has the lyrics that are used in the iTunes live or the 6 or so times I saw the show live. The one book is closer than the other, but still not completely accurate, which is funny given when this book came out. They had plenty of time to make it accurate to what was actually being performed.

For those who really really love the show, it's still worth checking it out, but don't plan on gaining a lot of insight. I got very little out of it.… (mehr)