Abstract
This paper investigates the interactivity between image and text in Lewis Carroll’s Alices and their consequent adaptability to other media, including digital storytelling such as appbooks or born-digital novels. In the four Alices ―Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), and The Nursery Alice (1890), the classic illustrations created by John Tenniel (and Carroll himself in Under Ground) not only support stories with visual details, but also interact dynamically with the printed texts, enabling readers to appreciate the book more intuitively and even in a tactile way. As books full of “pictures and conversations,” the Alices foreshadow the interplay between (multimedia) image and text, and the readers’ creative and physical involvement in digital storytelling which is full of “sound, animation, and links.” The pleasurable interactivity between the books and their readers has made the Alices among the most beloved and retold classics, and will continue to do so, too.
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