ABSTRACT
While Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is acknowledged as an innovative children's book that clearly celebrates itself as a metatextual book that helped to revise and redirect the nature of children's literature during the nineteenth century, what happens to Lewis Carroll's book when it is adapted within the context of new multimedia and technology? Can a nineteenth-century children's book, even one as pivotal text as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, reach a new generation of child readers through reconfiguration into a hypertext? At the turn of the millennium, a period which Jay David Bolter has characterized as “the late age of print,” 1 and when Jacques Derrida has announced “the death of the civilization of the book” 2 can an illustrated book still appeal to contemporary readers?
