The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Jan 10, 2025 7:38 PM

Author:C.S. Lewis,BBC,Maurice Denham,Stephen Thorne,Full Cast

When Lucy comes across the old wardrobe standing alone in the spare room, she thinks she has found a good place for hide and seek. But then she tumbles headlong into a magical world of fauns, dwarves and giants, of animals that talk and horses that fly - the land of Narnia. It is so extraordinary that at first her brothers and sister don't believe it can be real. Soon, though, Peter, Edmund and Susan find Narnia too and the adventures really begin.Together they must battle against the evil White Witch to break her cruel grip on Narnia, a land she has cast in perpetual winter, without Christmas. Only one thing can hold fast against such wickedness: the mighty Aslan. The excitement which C.S. Lewis must have felt in creating this enchanted world is conjured up once again in this thrilling dramatisation of one of the best stories ever told.

Reviews

For style and wit, it is head and shoulders above most teen fiction published this year

—— Amanda Craig , The Times

I loved, loved, loved this book. It's vivid, it's anarchic, it's unbearably cool . . . It's also very, very funny. There were moments when I had to put it down because I was howling with laughter . . . And if so much hilarity weren't enough, it's also very clever

—— Jill Murphy , thebookbag.co.uk

A book to get teenage boys reading for the hell of it . . . A dark and funny book

—— Phil Hogan , Observer

Definitely the funniest, most obscenely wise book I have read in a long time

—— Theo Temple, Booktrust Teenage Prize judge , The Times

Every writer hates to hear the words "stunning new talent" applied to someone else, but in the case of Anthony McGowan nothing else will do

—— Meg Rosoff

All demand to be read in translation of the originals and not sanitized retellings. Here, by examining letters, journals, annotations and posthumously unavailable papers, Zipes found some hitherto untranslated "ironic and macabre fables, humorous anecdotes, stories about the crusades, Norwegian legend, one 'feminist' tale among other things

—— Buffalo News

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