OXFORD will be transformed into Wonderland for the second time next month.

On Saturday, July 4, there will be exhibitions and activities across the city for the second Alice’s Day.

In 2007, the Oxford charity Story Museum organised a day of events celebrating the Alice in Wonderland stories and author Lewis Carroll, Christ Church maths don Charles Dodgson. An estimated 6,000 people took part.

The charity aims to set up a £4m centre for children’s books in Oxford and is looking for a permanent base.

If this year’s event is a success, organisers hope it will become an annual fixture.

One of the highlights will be 30 performers from Oxford Playhouse dressed as white rabbits, who will pop up in various locations.

Organiser Esther Browning, from the Story Museum, said “This is a fun way for Oxford to introduce today’s children to this classic story.

“Alice became one of the most popular, widely quoted and most translated children’s books ever written and marked the birth of modern children’s literature.”

This year's trail will include storytellers in college quads, performances, talks, games and activities, and a tea party in the Botanic Garden.

Those joining the trail will see the earliest editions of the Alice books at the Bodleian Library off Broad Street.

New events this year include Wonderland Games at the Museum of Natural History, Alice surprises and giveaways in the Covered Market, and Wonderland Art activities in Borders with Modern Art Oxford.

Visitors will also be able to take an Alice Meadow Walk, a Lewis Carroll Towpath Pilgrimage, hear the story of the Treacle Well in the old church at Binsey, and join a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at The Perch pub in the village.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865, and was inspired by Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry Liddell, the former Dean of Christ Church.