The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular ever published. The best known, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! The illustrations in this book have been coloured by the original artist, Pauline Baynes.
***Contains Colour Images**
Digory let out a scream. "What's happened to Polly?"
"Congratulate me, my dear boy," said Uncle Andrew, rubbing his hands. "My experiment has succeeded. The little girl's gone - vanished - right out of this world."
When Digory and Polly discover Uncle Andrew's secret workshop, they are tricked into touching the magic rings which transport them to the Other Place. But even Uncle Andrew doesn't realise the wonders that await them - for here is the gateway to the Land of Narnia and the beginning of many wonderful adventures there...
This is volume 1 in Chronicles Of Narnia .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Pauline Baynes is one of the greatest living children's illustrators whose line illustrations for C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe helped turn it into a well-loved classic which was shortlisted for Book of the Millennium in 2000. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898. He wrote numerous books of literary criticism and on Christianity, the best-known being The Screwtape Letters, as well as four novels for adults. The Narnia stories were his only works for children.
This book contains the following story:
The Magician's Nephew
Exploring the attic one rainy afternoon, Polly and Digory manage to disturb Uncle Andrew in the course of his experiment. His punishment is to make them test his magic rings. The children find themselves in the Wood between the Worlds, a strange place full of magical pools which seem to be the gateways to other worlds. Before they return to London the children decide they will explore one other world but in so doing they awake and bring back to London the evil Empress Jadis who proceeds to wreak havoc. Desperate to get the queen away the children return with her (and a cabby and his horse) to the Wood and onto another land - Narnia.
This book is in the following series:
Narnia
This is a seven book series by CS Lewis featuring the magical land of Narnia. Aslan the lion creates a new land of Narnia where animals can talk and portals allow the offspring of Adam and Eve to pass from our world to this new land, and get up to all sorts of adventures...
Chronicles of Narnia
