the lion the witch and the wardrobe pages

So humans create fantasy as a means of escape. The real world is boring it’s mundane, unimaginative and dry. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.” Read by Michael York and this was a pleasure to listen to.

Tumnus to the White Queen - just tie this story together. Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!Ĭould you imagine a more magical world? I've watched the movie as a kid but reading the book? It's 110% better. After a fair amount of convincing, she and her three siblings set out to explore and are soon whisked into the land of Narnia. The youngest discovers an incredible secret in the back of the old wardrobe in their uncle's house. Four siblings on a rainy day play hide-and-seek. But that made no difference to what he had to do. Peter did not feel very brave indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. I never read these as a child but now that I'm in my mid-twenties, I'm feeling the urge to visit all those childhood classics I never read. If you've ever wondered which literary world would be the best to live in, wonder no longer, cause there's a BookTube Video to answer that! The Written Review: One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.It's like C.S. I'm sorry if you read them in the wrong order, but if you did, it's better than you admit it now, come to grips, and move on with your life knowing the truth. Truth be told, I've read books written this year that have ten times the sexism this one does.Īlso, I'd like to make it clear that this is the FIRST book of the Narnia Chronicles. And in my opinion, it only needs a little slack.

But honestly, this book was written 60 years ago, and you need to cut it a little slack because of that. And there were a few slight pieces of sexism that I ignored, skipped over, or re-worded on the fly. The British slang will be a stumbling block to some.

And when you're reading a book aloud, it becomes really obvious.) (That's become a particular peeve lately. Also there's not a lot of dead space or trashy empty dialogue that just seems to be there to take up space. I've read a lot of books to my little boy these last couple years, and I can honestly say that This book is among the best. I don't know how easy it is for y'all to access the record of those here on Goodreads, but if you're looking for a detailed account of my thoughts on the book, you can look there. This is the first book where I chronicled my thoughts as I read through it with my son.

The lion the witch and the wardrobe pages