The lion, witch and the wardrobe

[coventgarden]

DD is nagging to read my copy of the afore mentioned book and I have said no so far as I have had it since I was a kid and I don't trust her not to spoil it. I am also unsure of the right age for it. She can read anything but I want her to understand and enjoy it as well.

Charity shops in posher areas are a good source of traditional literature at under £1
I stock my class library every year from them, over the summer.

I have heard there are groups of people who have vicious arguments heated debates about the correct order to read the books i.e. publication order or chronological.

Personally I am in the camp that says start with TLTWATW otherwise you spoil some of the plot - however I don't care enough to call anyone out for a fight over it

I though The Last Battle was pretty grim - really didn't like it much TBH. IIRC Susan is damned not to enjoy the after life because she decided to wear lipstick. It is a while since I read it so maybe I am hazy on the details here.

The best EB book I read at that sort of age was "The island of adventure". (It saved me from endless boredom on a rainy caravan holiday...)

coventgarden, does your Chronicles of C S Lewis really have Alice in Wonderland in it???

Yes.

well it's obviously not "Chronicles of CS Lewis" then, is it?! CS Lewis wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia", Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland - lots of Lewises, easy to get confused, but probably not if you're a publisher

OOps

Lewis Carroll is who I meant .