Four children step through a wardrobe into a country held in permanent winter, and C. S. Lewis's Narnia begins.
The story combines talking animals, a usurping witch and a lion whose return turns the season, material that has held children's attention for generations while carrying allegorical weight that adult readers tend to pick up separately. At 138 pages from BK Publications it is short enough to be finished in a few sittings or read aloud across a week of evenings. For most readers it serves as the entry point to the wider Narnia books rather than a standalone.
Reader notes:
• The best-known entry in C. S. Lewis's Narnia sequence
• 138 pages published by BK Publications
• Talking animals, a winter kingdom and a lion at the centre
• Short enough for reading aloud over several nights
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