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I loved the Narnia series as a child, my book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was much loved and thumbed through. I read it as a delightful fantasy only realising in late adolescence that while C S Lewis had borrowed from many mythologies that the central tenet of his book was that Aslan was Christ. My feelings were perhaps not quite as negative as Philip Pullman, whose acclaimed fantasy series His Dark Materials was written as critical response to The Chronicles, but I do agree with J K Ro
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I re-read this book as an adult after reading the Harry Potter series to see how styles in childrens books have changed over the years. It was great, one thing I never picked up as a kid was the religous themes. Worth reading to younger children or the 10 - 12 year old to read themselves.
A very simple Christian story where Jesus gets to be a lion. Conceived as a CofE parable this retelling of the testament dwells more on the muscular Christianity of Empire than the Mediterranean focus on pain. And yet the child characters and the echoes of WW2 (sensibly enhanced in the movie) remain excellent children's writing.
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I loved the movie growing up, wish I could find the original. I’ve really loved reading this to my daughter. It was a fantastic adventure
May 14, 2011
Becky
marked it as to-read
Oct 21, 2012
Christer Eriksson
marked it as to-read
May 10, 2015
Jennifer Ma
marked it as to-read
