Inside the story
Meet Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat is a grinning cat Alice meets in Wonderland, where it appears and vanishes at will. It offers her riddling directions and cheerful nonsense, including the suggestion that everyone around her is mad.
On the page
A large, plump long-haired tabby with grey-and-brown fur banded by dark charcoal stripes, luminous amber-yellow eyes half-closed in amusement, and an enormous, unmistakable wide grin baring rows of teeth; lounging with one striped paw tucked beneath its chin amid swirling lavender and rose mist.
