The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Movie Tie-in Edition (Narnia) Paperback – Unabridged, October 8, 2005

Actually book one of course, but okay. I’m afraid Greta Gerwig will try to make the action way too pompous and overdone when the magic is the restraint of what happens in the book. Sigh.

My daughter loved and raved about this book so much. I highly recommend it.

Very readable and fast moving...not just for children.The story is like chips. Once you begin you cannot stop.I do not mind if Asian is female in a film. We have heard of Queen Victoria, Joan of Ark and Catherine Great!

Review 4.4 starsThis was still as enjoyable as when I read the book as a child some decades ago. and then, I read it again, a few times or more. The magic never goes when I return to Narnia and I will always encourage other kids to escape there, and to relish the magical use of words and phrases.This book never gets old. It’s the first Narnia book that I encountered – and the first written then published, although chronologically the second.I always felt that talking animals would be amazing and C. S Lewis makes them believable and unique characters. For me, the children were always of less interest than the creatures of Narnia – starting with Tumnus the Faun. Although in her defence, Lucy is always the most endearing child. Everyone has things that make them contrast with the others, creating a memorable cast including Aslan.However, while giving human characteristics to a faun seems credible, it’s harder to accept animals described in similar terms. For Narnia, that works, but as an adult, I can sense it’s not being true to their real nature. But don’t let that spoil the weaving of the spell.This is a classic fantasy for children, and disbelief is wonderfully suspended from the moment that Lucy Pevensie finds her way through the wardrobe and begins an enchanting adventure. In Narnia, we have a world where the unexpected is possible and magic is at the heart of the creation. For the older reader, this world poses a few questions. Perhaps that is why C.S Lewis felt compelled, after five books, to eventually write about the world’s origins in The Magician’s Nephew – my favourite Narnia book and chronologically Book 1.Yes, there are aspects that are dated like attitudes to girls/women fighting, and there are the Christian undertones, but I can forget these as the whole creation transports me. There is clever use of language, of humorous phrases, of adjectives to evoke emotions – both in the dialogue, and in the descriptive passages that abound, bringing Narnia alive in the imagination.“…And you are riding not on a road nor in a park nor even on the downs, but right across Narnia, in spring, down solemn avenues of beech and across sunny glades of oak, through wild orchards of snow-white cherry trees, past roaring waterfalls and mossy rocks and echoing caverns, up windy slopes alight with gorse bushes, and across the shoulders of heathery mountains and along giddy ridges and down, down, down again into wild valleys and out into acres of blue flowers.”I’m sure that Pauline Baynes’ illustrations were in the first copy that I read, and they helped create the vibrant images in my head of Narnia, but the words on the page were what transported me there. The most abiding image seems to be that lamp post and whenever I see a real or replica Victorian one in real-life, I drift back to that fir-fringed clearing in Narnia.Time to introduce my great grandkids to this spellbinding world and this can be another book to encourage their imagination.Story – four starsSetting/World-building – five starsAuthenticity – three starsCharacters – four starsStructure – five starsReadability – five starsEditing – five stars

Good size text. Good size book. Opens easy to read. No sketches or drawings in the chapters. Hardcover same as dust jacket. Book numbers in chronological order.

Buen libro para niños de 7 grado.

I homeschool my 5th grader and ordered him this book to read! It’s a timeless classic and he absolutely loved it! 17 chapters of grade level reading and a story that kept him engaged and enthused to read!

This is a great book. A good read. This is a book that every Christian should read. At least once in their life.