The second of C. S. Lewis's novels to be produced in graphic novel style, The Magician's Nephew is actually the first in the Chronicles of Narnia series of seven titles.
Polly and Digory meet one day over their garden wall. They decide to explore the attics above their houses one wet summer afternoon, and by mistake come across Digory's mad Uncle Andrew in the middle of an experiment. First Polly, then Digory, touch the magic rings which take them out of our world and into another one, where they encounter the evil Empress Jadis and by mistake bring her back to England. In a desperate attempt to get her away from the havoc she causes in London, the two children magic her and several others into a totally different world - the world of Narnia.
This is volume 1 in Chronicles Of Narnia .
There are 64 pages in this book. This is a comic book. This book was published 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Born to a coal-mining family in 1945, Robin Lawrie emigrated to Canada in 1953 and lived in Vancouver till 1968. Returning then to Britain, his freelance career as an illustrator and occasional author has continued until the present day. 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.
