PREPARATIONS are under way for Oxford’s Alice’s Day which will take place on Saturday, July 8.

The annual celebration of two of literature’s most magical tales, Alice's Adventures Under Ground and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, will feature a host of activities across the city including immersive street theatre, a ‘Comic Jam’, live theatre, as well as talks, lectures, face painting and crafts.

This year’s theme is ‘Journeys and Adventures’.

The annual event, organised by the Story Museum in Pembroke Street, Oxford, will this year also mark closure of the museum’s exhibitions.

A closing procession will be held as part of the celebrations.

In July of 1862 Oxford don Charles Dodgson - Lewis Carroll - took 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat up the Thames and told them stories that would eventually become Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and Alice Through the Looking-Glass.

The museum’s website says: “Alice’s Day commemorates an important moment for children’s literature and for Oxford.

“Alice became one of the most popular, most widely quoted and most widely translated children’s book ever written, with editions even in Esperanto and shorthand.”

More information including programme announcements will be revealed closer to the event.