Inside the story
Meet Caterpillar
The Caterpillar is a blue, slow-moving inhabitant of Wonderland who sits on a mushroom and regards Alice with aloof curiosity. When Alice meets him, he asks, “Who are you?” and explains which sides of the mushroom can make her grow or shrink.
On the page
A languid, sage-like creature portrayed as an elderly gnomish figure with a long flowing white beard and eyebrows, pointed ears, and a drooping moss-green pointed hat trimmed with acorns and oak leaves; he wears a green robe and waistcoat with golden wheat-ear embroidery and a leather-buckled belt, seated cross-legged atop a red toadstool with cream spots, calmly drawing on a long-stemmed hookah pipe.
