Tolkien, Wonderland, and chronology

I was thinking today about J. R. R. Tolkien reading Alice in Wonderland as a child (which we know he did because he makes more than one reference to it in the essay "On Fairy Stories," e.g., "I had no desire to have either dreams or adventures like Alice and the account of them merely amused me."). It's fun imagining Tolkien, as, say, an eight-year-old, reading Wonderland or having it read to him. But then I was thinking how a "book from the past" hits with a child...

Tolkien, Wonderland, and chronology