The Magician's Nephew - The Start Of Something Magical! (The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis)

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Product:	The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
Date:	20.10.07 (88 review reads)
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Advantages: Gives an insight to the backstory to the rest of the series

Disadvantages: Is clearly written for very young children.

The magician's nephew. The first in the Narnia series (when put in chronological order). If you're one of those people who read "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe" first and want to know how it all came to be then this is the book for you. Ever wondered how Narnia was created, how the first link from our world to Narnia was made, where the lamp post came from, how Jadis (The White Witch) came in to Narnia or how a wardrobe can transport people to this magical land? All will be revealed in this book. When i read it, i did not expect any of this to have such a large connection to "Lion". It was a great revelation when i realised that's what this book was doing.

The chronicles as a whole are something that i'm growing to love. During my childhood, i watched the BBC dramatisations of "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe", "Prince Caspian And The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader" and "The Silver Chair". To this day they still bring back strong feelings of nostalgia (and i've recently bought them on DVD, can't wait to watch them). I also had the full set of books as a child (they were originally my mothers) but i never read them. I wasn't the reading type back then (how that's changed!) Then, in 2005, Disney brought out "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" movie and, again, those feelings of nostalgia resurfaced. That was in 2005. By December 2006, the DVD was out and i watched it again and still loved it. This being around Christmas time I was thinking of something to get my girlfriend as a present. I knew she liked reading and she had expressed interest in Narnia and so i thought I'd buy her the books. Now, almost a year later, i've started reading them myself. How I wish i had read them as a child!

I have so far read the first four (in chronological order, supposedly how Lewis wanted them to be read). These are "The Magician's Nephew", "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe", "The Horse And His Boy" and "Prince Caspian". I am now about Eight chapters through the fifth ("The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader"). It was a joy to read "Lion" after seeing it many times over the years, as i'm sure it will be for "Dawn Treader" and "Silver Chair" but reading "The Magician's Nephew" and "The Horse And His Boy" has been a pleasure because these are completely new stories to me in the same world of Narnia that i grew up loving!

The Magician's Nephew follows Digory and Polly, two young children who find their way in to Digory's uncles study. They soon find that the uncle is a magician who has made some magic rings that will transport the wearer to other worlds. While in one of these worlds, called Charn, the children awake the queen from this dying world. They lead her back to their own world and soon discover that she is not what she at first seemed to be. They must get out of their world and be back themselves before the queen can cause too much damage This may not be easy, as the children stumble across another new world; one that is just beginning!

I found this book to be absolutely magical. It is clearly written in a style that is for young children but even adults who are fans of Narnia will love this book because of the detail in the back story that it gives. If you are considering buying this then i would advise you to do so. You won't regret it and it will be the start of something that you may cherish for the rest of your life. Narnia begins here!

Summary: An excellent book which answers many questions about the origins of Narnia and its inhabitants.