In August 1948, during a visit by an American writer, Chad Walsh, Lewis talked vaguely about completing a children's book he had begun "in the tradition of E. Nesbit". [16] After this conversation, not much happened until the beginning of the next year. Then everything changed. In his essay "It All Began With a Picture", Lewis continues: "At first I had very little idea how the story would go. But then suddenly Aslan came bounding into it. I think I had been having a good many dreams of lions about that time. Apart from that, I don't know where the Lion came from or why he came. But once he was there, he pulled the whole story together, and soon he pulled the six other Narnian stories in after him." [17] The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is a timeless classic that has touched generations of readers. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is an inspiring work that shows us how even in the darkest of days hope can prevail. William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, and Georgie Henley play Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, four British children evacuated during the Blitz to the countryside, who find a wardrobe that leads to the fantasy world of Narnia, where they ally with the lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson) against the forces of the White Witch ( Tilda Swinton).

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe won several awards including the Academy Award for Best Makeup; the BeliefNet Film Award for Best Spiritual film; the Movieguide Faith & Values Awards: Most Inspiring Movie of 2005 and Best Family Movie of 2005; and the CAMIE (Character and Morality In Entertainment) Award. Others include the British Academy Film Awards for Makeup and Hair and Orange Rising Star ( James McAvoy); Outstanding Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media; the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role ( Georgie Henley, Female); the Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Fantasy Film (Isis Mussenden); and the Saturn Award for Costumes (Isis Mussenden) and Make-up ( Howard Berger, Greg Nicotero, and Nikki Gooley). Trueman, Matt (7 December 2017). "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – review". Whatsonstage . Retrieved 27 May 2022. Fortunately, she's still on this side of the other worldly portal, but she's not stopped talking about this breath-taking show that's running at Birmingham's The Rep across the festive season until Sunday, January 28. Schakel, Peter (2005). The Way into Narnia: A Reader's Guide. Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-2984-9. p. 122.

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Nicholson, Mervyn (1991). "What C. S. Lewis Took From E. Nesbit". Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 16: 16–22. doi: 10.1353/chq.0.0823. S2CID 143700282 . Retrieved 1 December 2014. Lyon / Vision wardrobe is a great choice for anyone looking for a stylish and functional storage solution. It offers a wide range of options, from traditional wood designs to modern metal and glass styles, so you can find the perfect piece for any room. The pieces are also incredibly durable, so you can trust that your wardrobe will last for years to come. It's this combination of staging, music and costume that makes this bewitching story come to life with a dark and mystical twist. The whole show is orchestrated perfectly, even down to Aslan being represented as both puppet and man with his long coat and messy mane of hair. Del Toro crafts a harrowing fairy tale". Star Beacon. 29 December 2006. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012 . Retrieved 28 March 2007.

Making the Cut: Sim Evans-Jones talks editing Shrek with Media Composer". Avid Technology. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021 . Retrieved 15 September 2016. Edwards, Owen Dudley (2007). British Children's Fiction in the Second World War. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-7486-1650-3. Lewis very much enjoyed writing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and embarked on the sequel Prince Caspian soon after finishing the first novel. He completed the sequel by the end of 1949, less than a year after finishing the initial book. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe had few readers during 1949 and was not published until late 1950, so his initial enthusiasm did not stem from favourable reception by the public. [23] But how could it be true, sir?” said Peter. “Why do you say that?” asked the Professor. “Well, for one thing,” said Peter, “if it was real why doesn’t everyone find this country every time they go to the wardrobe? I mean, there was nothing there when we looked; even Lucy didn’t pretend there was.” “What has that to do with it?” said the Professor. “Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time.” “Are they?” said the Professor; and Peter did not know quite what to say. “But there was no time,” said Susan. “Lucy had had no time to have gone anywhere, even if there was such a place. She came running after us the very moment we were out of the room. It was less than a minute, and she pretended to have been away for hours.” “That is the very thing that makes her story so likely to be true,” said the Professor. “If there really is a door in this house that leads to some other world (and I should warn you that this is a very strange house, and even I know very little about it)—if, I say, she had got into another world, I should not be at all surprised to find that the other world had a separate time of its own; so that however long you stayed there it would never take up any of our time. On the other hand, I don’t think many girls of her age would invent that idea for themselves. If she had been pretending, she would have hidden for a reasonable time before coming out and telling her story.” One LUCY LOOKS INTO A WARDROBE ONCE THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it. As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls’ room and they all talked it over. “We’ve fallen on our feet and no mistake,” said Peter. “This is going to be perfectly splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like.” “I think he’s an old dear,” said Susan. “Oh, come off it!” said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad-tempered. “Don’t go on talking like that.”How much more of the story Lewis then wrote is uncertain. Roger Lancelyn Green thinks that he might even have completed it. In September 1947, Lewis wrote in a letter about stories for children: "I have tried one myself, but it was, by the unanimous verdict of my friends, so bad that I destroyed it." [14] Jules Tasca, Ted Drachman and Thomas Tierney collaborated on a musical adaptation published in 1986. [64] The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 25 April 2011.

On 10 March 1949, Roger Lancelyn Green dined with Lewis at Magdalen College. After the meal, Lewis read two chapters from his new children's story to Green. Lewis asked Green's opinion of the tale, and Green said that he thought it was good. The manuscript of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was complete by the end of March 1949. Lucy Barfield received it by the end of May. [20] When on 16 October 1950 Geoffrey Bles in London published the first edition, three new "chronicles", Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Horse and His Boy, had also been completed. The story has been adapted three times for television. The first was a 10-part serial produced by ABC Weekend Television for ITV and broadcast in 1967. This version was adapted by Trevor Preston and directed by Helen Standage. [61] In 1979, an animated TV movie, [62] directed by Peanuts director Bill Melendez, was broadcast and won the first Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. [ citation needed] A third television adaptation was produced in 1988 by the BBC using a combination of live actors, animatronic puppets, and animation. The 1988 adaptation was the first of a series of four Narnia adaptations over three seasons. The programme was nominated for an Emmy Award and won a BAFTA. [ citation needed] Theatre [ edit ] Lewis (2004 [1947]). Collected Letters: Volume 2 (1931–1949). p. 802. ISBN 0-06-072764-0. Letter to E. L. Baxter dated 10 September 1947. a b c "The lion, the witch and the wardrobe; a story for children" (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record.WorldCat libraries have catalogued the related works in different ways including "The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe: a musical based on C.S. Lewis' classic story" (book, 1986, OCLC 14694962); "The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe: a musical based on C.S. Lewis' classic story" (musical score, 1986, OCLC 16713815); "Narnia: a dramatic adaptation of C.S. Lewis's The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe" (video, 1986, OCLC 32772305); "Narnia: based on C.S. Lewis' [classic story] The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe" (1987, OCLC 792898134). Sturgis, Amy H.(2007) Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis. Mythopoeic Press, Altadena, California. ISBN 1-887726-11-X (p. 77)

Top ten books parents think children should read". The Telegraph. 19 August 2012 . Retrieved 22 August 2012. Gormley, Beatrice. C. S. Lewis: The Man Behind Narnia. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-5301-1. p. 122. (Second edition of C. S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller. Eerdmans. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8028-5121-5.)

Edith Nesbit's short story "The Aunt and Amabel" includes the motif of a girl entering a wardrobe to gain access to a magical place. [47] a b c Visualizing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe : The Complete Production Experience (DVD). Buena Vista. 2006. The story contains profound themes of good vs evil, faith, redemption, courage, and friendship that are applicable to our everyday lives.