If you loved Alice debating meaning with Humpty Dumpty and the Hatter’s riddle that has no answer, you’ll relish Milo driving to Dictionopolis and buying words by the pound, or visiting the Silent Valley where sounds are manufactured. Like the Queen of Hearts’ nonsensical trial, the courtroom in The Phantom Tollbooth spins logic until it’s hilarious. It’s a romp of puns, paradoxes, and clever language games that echo “Jabberwocky” while feeling fresh and warmly inventive.

If the Cheshire Cat’s vanishing grin and the Looking-Glass’s inverted rules delighted you, the nameless narrator’s encounter with policemen obsessed with atomic bicycle-theory will scratch the same itch. Courtrooms that try tarts become police barracks that prosecute reality itself, with logic as slippery as a Wonderland caucus-race. The Third Policeman delivers that same eerie, playful tilt to the world—funny, unsettling, and wonderfully strange.

If Alice slipping through the rabbit hole and the mirror captivated you, September’s voyage into Fairyland will feel like a spirited cousin—complete with a wyvern librarian and bureaucratic magic that rivals the Red Queen’s chessboard rules. Like the tea party’s absurd etiquette and the croquet game with flamingo mallets, September must navigate charming but perilous customs that twist sense and nonsense into adventure. Fairyland brims with lush language and imaginative creatures that echo the White Knight and the Bandersnatch while carving its own daring path.

If the bite-sized episodes of Wonderland—tea with the Mad Hatter, a chat with the Caterpillar, the Queen’s courtroom—were your favorite parts, you’ll adore the Moomins’ gentle adventures with the Hobgoblin’s Hat, Thingumy and Bob, and the mysterious Groke. Each chapter feels like discovering a new room behind a tiny door, just as Alice does, and the tone balances coziness with oddity. Finn Family Moomintroll offers that same meandering delight of discovery and quietly sparkling humor.

If you enjoyed the Queen of Hearts’ farcical justice and the Duchess’s moralizing nonsense, Pratchett’s Ankh-Morpork will tickle the same funny bone: a city where guilds legalize crime and a dragon’s return exposes the absurdity of power. Like the King’s pompous courtroom and the Red Queen’s rule-bound chessboard, the Night Watch stumbles through institutions that look authoritative until a closer, sillier look. Guards! Guards! matches Carroll’s gleeful parody with brisk adventure and wordplay galore.