A day of events to celebrate Oxford's links with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is being planned at a meeting today.

The organisers of The Story Museum, who hope to run a museum dedicated to children's stories, are planning to run the event a year from now.

They are confident it will attract visitors to the city.

Until a venue is found for the museum, a series of storytelling events are being held around Oxford, and Alice's Day could be a major highlight.

Kim Pickin, the Story Museum's coordinator, said: "The idea is that Oxford should create a day of adult, child and family activities to celebrate the first telling of the Alice in Wonderland story on July 4, 1862.

"The day, loosely modelled on Dublin's Bloom's Day for James Joyce, could include an Alice trail around Alice-related sites, a picnic and a large-scale performance.

"We hope that other activities lectures, children's activities, street happenings, displays might spring up around this basic structure.

"The aim is that it will appeal to Oxfordshire residents and to Alice enthusiasts from further afield."

Ms Pickin added that she hoped that various organisations in Oxford would help fund the preparations for the event.

"We should be able to tell from the meeting whether there is sufficient support but so far it looks positive," she said.

The Alice's Day group has asked Story Museum members to coordinate further work towards staging an event on July 7 next year, and another meeting has already been put in the diary for September.

Today's meeting was due to be held at the Old Library, in Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate's, starting at 11am.