"Oh, children," said the Lion, "I feel my strength coming back to me. I read the following passage which seemed to have the greatest impact on both of us and I'll explain why in a minute. He kept glancing over at me while I was reading about Aslan coming back to life and playing with Susan and Lucy. I did discover that it is a lot harder to read the books outloud because I find them so deeply meaningful and impacting that I spent the later half of the book trying not to sob my eyeballs out while reading to him. I walk away from each adventure with practical life applications and this read through was no exception to me. I confess that I am completely unable to read the Narnia series without reading stuff into it. * I found this doll's wardrobe at Goodwill and thought it was PERFECT for Narnia play! Lucy and the Stone Table were gifted to us (by my brother) and the other figures are Safari Ltd. Particularly because I have been collecting Narnia read-along toys and he was allowed to play with these things while we read the story: Both of us.īookworm1 was familiar with the characters and general storyline already so this wasn't terribly new to him or disturbing. This year I thought he could handle the story in its entirety and so we read it. We've spend plenty of time with Narnia picture books and we've watched video clips of the movies (the parts without any curiously disturbing mythological creatures) and we'd even made it a few chapters into the real book a time or two. At age 4 1/2 he seemed ready to be able to understand and thrill in the story I love so much: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I was very excited to be able to share the full and complete story with Bookworm1 this year. Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74).The book, which has religious themes that some find heavy-handed, has been criticized for its portrayal of women and the way the children’s lives end (among other things). But he’s good.” In Aslan, Lewis created a Christ-like figure who pays the penalty for one of the children’s infractions and thus breaks the White Witch’s wintry grip on Narnia. “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe.
While the fauns, witches and talking beavers who populate Narnia are utterly charming, it’s the mysterious lion Aslan that gives the book its real thrill. The Oxbridge English professor’s most famous book, part of the seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia, served as the literary spark that ignited dozens of contemporary fantasies, from The Magicians to Harry Potter, with a child who suddenly discovers that magic exists. Lewis’ 1950 children’s classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Stuck in a lonely house at a bleak time, cut off from family and friends, a band of children stumble upon a door into a secret world behind that most prosaic of furniture items, a wardrobe.
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