To amuse the children he told them a story about a little girl, sitting bored by a riverbank, who finds herself tumbling down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world called Wonderland.

This event and the best selling books that followed by Dodgson's alter ego, Lewis Carroll, are being remembered in Oxford on Alice's Day, Saturday, July 4, from 10am. Oxford Playhouse Young Theatre 16/22 will be dressed up as little White Rabbits and performing interesting street art around the city in unexpected places.

The Story Museum is coordinating a fabulous free day of family fun, turning Oxford into Wonderland. Visitors are invited to recreate Alice's journey down the rabbit's hole in a citywide trail. Three groups of White Rabbits will be situated around Alice's trial: catch them if you can.

If you do miss them along the way, you can join the White Rabbits at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party at The Perch Inn at Binsey at 7.30pm. Expect singing and dancing and plenty of madness.