What shortened Alice book for young children did Carroll publish in 1890?

The shortened Alice book Carroll published for young children in 1890 was The Nursery “Alice”.

Carroll adapted Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for very young readers, describing the intended audience as children “from nought to five.” The adaptation simplifies and shortens the original story while retaining its central journey through Wonderland. It was published by Macmillan around Easter 1890, twenty-five years after the first Alice book.

The edition was designed to be more accessible and visually appealing to small children. John Tenniel’s illustrations were redrawn, enlarged, and coloured for it, with some images revised. E. Gertrude Thomson designed the coloured cover, and Edmund Evans printed the book in colour.

The title is sometimes confused with later retellings or with Carroll’s original handwritten manuscript, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Those are different works: Under Ground was the early manuscript presented to Alice Liddell, while The Nursery “Alice” was a later adaptation of the published Wonderland story.