Suddenly Alice finds herself standing in front of the mirror, but she realizes when she looks around that she has magically appeared on the other side of the mirror in a world where flowers talk, walking forward only seems to bring her back to her starting point, and the only way to read a book is to hold it up to a mirror.
After attempting unsuccessfully to read a poem, 'Jabberwocky,' by holding it up to the mirror, Alice wanders through a garden of talking flowers and eventually meets the Red Queen in a landscape that looks like a giant chessboard.