Showing posts with label The Chronicles of Narnia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Chronicles of Narnia. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2012

Monday Begins

 
ONE.

LUCY LOOKS INTO THE WARDROBE

ONCE THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids.  There were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants.

We read a little further and discover the siblings doing the thing that all children do when stranded in a manor home: exploring and getting into mischief - Miss Kitty
And shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-still. 

You'll have to turn the key to find the book.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Happy 113th Birthday Clive Staples Lewis

Aslan, The Great Lion. The Chronicles of Narnia. Photo courtesy of weheartit.com
It's always a bit tricky tricky knowing where to start this series. Technically you can start with The Magician's Nephew, or you can start with The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and then double back and read The Magician's Nephew and be just fine. Just for the record, I see no reason why wearing lipstick should prevent one from residing in Narnia. That fact seriously bums me out.