First off is a book that people are talking a lot about right now, Alice in Wonderland. The book has already been turned into a movie by Disney, but Tim Burton decided he wanted to take a chance at it, and made another movie set later on in Alice's life, but still using many of the same characters seen in the earlier movie.
The original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were written by Lewis Carroll.
The books were almost immediately deemed Literary Nonsense, but despite that they have become the basis for many literary characters and other similar things in the fantasy genre.
Due to the very imaginative nature of the book, there are literally thousands of ideas about what the characters and events symbolize. One example of this is how the Queen of Hearts and her roses alluding to historical events involving the meaning of the red and white roses. The red roses are suspected to represent the English House of Lancaster, while the white roses represented the rival House of York.
All in all this is a lovely, entertaining work of literature, whether taken as a fantasy filled children's book or as a very well disguised review of life and history as seen through the eyes of the amazing author.
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