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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) (Paperback) (Paperback)
by C. S. Lewis
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Narnia, Adventure, Fiction, Ages 4-8, Children's book |
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Four children open a magic wardrobe door and fall into another world -A tale of awakening, hilarious, beautiful, frightening, and wise. |
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Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Pub. in: September, 2000
ISBN: 0064409422
Pages: 208
Measurements: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00090
Other information: Collectors edition
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This is either the first (published) book in the Narnia series, or the second (chronologically), but order is not important when reading this excellent book.
This is an Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass type of fairy tale adventure story for all ages, as told by a favorite Sunday school teacher with a strict biblical syllabus.
Four children find an unusual way into Narnia, now under the witch's icy spell, and their experiences pave the way for the future of this magical country.
"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bears his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again."
Chock full of mythical creatures and talking animals, the story progresses at an exciting gallop. Even Father Christmas puts in an appearance with some very useful gifts for our heroes.
The Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve experience compassion, bravery, generosity, greed and betrayal, sacrifice, martyrdom, suffering and redemption on their way to maturity before ascending to their rightful places in Narnian history.
The resurrection and later miracles by the great and powerful King Aslan, the significance of the stone table and the great battle between good and evil are powerful symbols of faith.
Read it first, read it last, but certainly read this book.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 4
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C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. His major contributions in literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology brought him international renown and acclaim. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include The Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet, The Four Loves, The Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity.
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Narnia - the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy … the place where adventure begins. Lucy is the first to find the secret wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever. Enter this enchanted world countless times in The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Nicholas the Pilgrim (MSL quote), Washington State
<2006-12-30 00:00>
Harper Audio has produced an exciting, unabridged, audio recording of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, featuring the well-known British actor, Michael York, (who played John the Baptist in Zefirrelli's outstanding film "Jesus of Nazareth").
Our family recently listened to the CD recordings while on a car trip. York brings each character to life with his vocal inflections, his use of dynamics (loud and soft voicings) and best of all, his mastery of various accents-British, Irish and Scottish-given to the different characters. Here each "person" has a vivid personality, and the listener can easily picture them in his or her mind.
We've enjoyed the Focus on the Family dramatization, as well as the BBC version, in the past, but I'd prefer to hear the unabridged text of this C.S. Lewis classic fantasy, with its spiritual and allegorical undertones. We've read this story aloud several times in our family over the years, but I believe that, from now on, we'll let Michael York read it to us. This is a pure delight (not like the "Turkish Delight" that Edmund ate)! |
FrKurt Messick (MSL quote), Bloomington, IN USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
One of the miracles of C.S. Lewis is that he is able to incorporate a sense of the mystical and magical with the form of the world in a Christian framework without either aspect becoming forced or stilted. The stories that Lewis has crafted in the Chronicles of Narnia stand on their own as good storytelling even without the underpinning of Christian imagery - they are strong tales, kin in many ways to the Lord of the Rings cycle, which makes sense, given the friendship and professional relationship of Lewis with Tolkein.
This particular text, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is the second installment in the overall Narnia series, but each story is able to stand on its own. This is a story that almost begins with 'once upon a time...' It is a good story for children of all ages (including 40-year-old children like me). The story begins in the dark days of the London blitz, with the children being sent away for their protection. This was common for people in all social classes, from the royal family on down, to send the children out to the countryside for the duration of the war - when Lewis was writing and publishing the Narnia books, this experience would have been fresh in the minds of the readers. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are the family children sent to stay with old Professor and his less-than-amiable housekeeper; it comes as no surprise that the children hope to escape from this as much as from the bombs in London, and escape they did.
Lucy found it first - the portal to Narnia, in the back of the wardrobe in the special room. Then Edmund (though he would lie about it), and then all four make the journey into Narnia, where they discover themselves to be the likely heirs of a prophetic chain of events freeing the land from the evil of the wintery White Witch, who was then styling herself as the Queen of Narnia. In fact, the real king of Narnia was Aslan, a majestic lion full of power and grace, whose soul was as pure as any child's hope for the future.
The Christian images would seem familiar to any liturgical churchgoer, but the there are also other symbols that fit beyond the religious that tap into deeper longings - evil here is not a hot place, but a frozen place, where the emotions are cold and sharp. The lesser creatures are the virtuous ones, and the children lead the way to the redemption of all. The battle of good and evil takes place in epic form, fitting many forms of heroic tales. The lion Aslan stands for the Christ figure, but can also conjure images of the lion of England - Peter's shield with a red lion makes him both the stand-in for the first of the apostles as well as a perfect casting for St. George. Other parallels abound.
The children themselves live a good life in Narnia, but eventually return to their English countryside encampment, with spirits and hopefulness renewed.
This is a tale of extraordinary power, and one that stays with the reader for a long time. Long before Harry Potter, there was Narnia - a tale that is not only fun and riveting, but also one with a strong moral lens that includes not only power, but the giving up of power; not only victory, but also forgiveness and sacrifice. Revenge is an emotion that is defeated here, and good triumphs at the last.
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Jesse Rouse (MSL quote), Kenosha, WI
<2006-12-30 00:00>
While this is not my favorite book in the Chronicles of Narnia, it still merits five stars and is an excellent book. Few authors can capture the imagination like C. S. Lewis was able to do, and I doubt that many will ever be able to again. This book is unbelievable, yet believable. Extraordinary and impossible things happen, yet Lewis describes things like the meal set before them at the Beaver's Dam so eloquently and vividly, it makes you seem as if you were there, and when you realize you are not, you are suddenly very hungry and wishing you had some fresh fish just caught from the icy river.
In addition to being a fantastic story, it contains a point, something which many modern fictional stories fail to do. In this book, C. S. Lewis lays out the crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ, except in Narnia Christ is not a man, but a lion, and not named Jesus, but Aslan. The power and majesty of the Great Lion impresses one while reading, yet his kindness and love shine through no weaker. Lewis does an amazing job of presenting to us the Christ of another world, and I cannot imagine anyone doing a much better job of it.
If you have seen the recent movie which models itself after this book, you have seen but a shadow of the real thing. The book is thousands of times better than either the PBS version or the new release. The new release managed to take the focus off of Aslan and put it instead on the children by talking about how the hope that the children have brought has ended the winter, whereas in the book, it was Aslan's power which did it (among numerous other changes to this effect). The movie both lowers Aslan and the importance of the death and resurrection of Aslan, and I think that it fails to capture the real essence of this work. The real thing is so much better, it is well worth the time required to read it.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
In the first book published in the Narnia series, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe four children-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are evacuated to a large country house during WWII. The house belongs to an elderly professor, and the children are left to their own devices for a great deal of time. One day, Lucy, the youngest, slips inside a huge wooden wardrobe during a game of hide and seek. As she tries to hide deeper and deeper between the fur coats, she realizes that she's walking on snow. The wardrobe, it seems is a "door from the world of men", and Lucy has entered the magical kingdom of Narnia.
Narnia is a wonderful place full of fauns, nymphs, dwarves, centaurs, and talking animals. But in case it sounds too wonderful, there's also the wicked White Witch. She's placed an evil spell across Narnia so that it's always winter but never Christmas. Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy enter Narnia and become irreversibly connected to the history and destiny of this marvelous kingdom.
If you've never read the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, then I urge you to do so. The 7 books in the Narnia series are some of the greatest children's books ever written. C.S. Lewis was a brilliant man, a personal friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, and the first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. His solid grounding in mythology is put to good use in these Narnia tales-although The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe also reflects the author's strong Christian beliefs. This is the book that started all the marvelous adventures-a classic tale of good vs. evil, and with some enchanted Turkish Delight thrown in. Re-reading this classic tale makes me remember how many hours I spent hiding in a wardrobe waiting to find my own Narnia-displacedhuman. |
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