The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)

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Summary: Adventure, mystery, mistakes, and problems.
Review: "Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia" Narnia a place of magic, adventure, and mystery gives four children the time of there life. Greed nearly kills them, evil stalks them, and bravery helps to save them. Overcast by the evil of the White Witch, and all that follow here, Narnia is in a state of forever winterness. The four children must overthrow this wicked witch, with the help of the good ones, and the all mighty Aslan. When all evil has been overthrown, the four children are crowned kings and queens of Narnia. Time passes and they become adults. While tring to capture a magical animal, they stumble back into the wardrobe, back into reality. The same day, just minutes later, but of course you will always find your way back Narnia, you won't know when, but you will stumble there your self. Kian Kamyab

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Summary: Magick-al
Review: I read this book when I was perhaps eleven and I have read it over and over again as the years have passed. Narnia is a special place for me and to this day, I often judge my actions by what I think Aslan would expect of me. I have tried to give several children the passport to Narnia by giving them this book. I hope someday that one of them (or one of the next I give it to) will find Narnia as much a home as I do.

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Summary: This book is indeed for the young at heart
Review: I LOVE this book. I'm in 9th grade and I wanted extra credit so I decided to read this book. I would recommend this book to anyone. This story made me cry and it made me laugh. I'm not going to give away any details of the book except just go and get it and share the classic with your whole family

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Summary: Great and funny
Review: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe: It's very difficult to say something about the book, what is right to say. It's very nice to read and I just don't want to stop reading because I want to know how a chapter ends or how the rest of the book is according to a especially chapter. A book for every age and for everybody. I really love reading it. It just bring me back to my childhood. I can feel how the characters in the story are feeling and I feel that I do what they're doing. Aukje Ter Horst

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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down and Kept Me On The Edge Of My Seat
Review: This is one of my favorite books. It made me want to cry and jump up for joy. Tears welled up in my eyes when Aslan made the ultimate sacrifice for a certain traitor. It reminded me of Jesus's ultimate sacrifice. This book is the best of the Chronicles of Narnia. It is a wonderful fantasy fit for all ages. I wont tell any more because I want all to read it for themselves

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Summary: A Magical Adventure
Review: This is the first book in the outstanding series called "The Chronicles of Narnia." Four children are sent to a large country house in Britain during World War II to escape the horrible air raids in London. Due to rain, they decide to stay in on the first day that they are there and explore the great house. Lucy, the youngest, steps into a large wardrobe filled with coats. It leads her to a magical world with snow and a distant lamppost! This is a wonderful series, and many students and teachers know and have read of Narnia. Especially recommended for your able readers! A must for any elementary teacher's reading list! written by Bob Townsend

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Summary: One of the best books that I have ever read.
Review: Now I am teaching English in the Czech Republic, but when I was teaching in the U.S. I used to read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my class each year. The students loved the book so much that when it came time to go to the school library to check out books I had to go over "Library Manners." Otherwise there was such a mad stampede to the Chronicles of Narnia books that if the librarian hadn't been such a nice person who loved to see children excited about reading, my classes would have been banned from the library. They asked for the books for their birthdays and Christmas, and when free books were distributed at school all of the Chronicles of Narnia books were taken. The people in charge of the program soon learned to order double or even triple the amount of books they had the first year. I wrote a play of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The students performed it for the school, their parents, and for local cable television. Even the most reluctant readers loved the book

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Summary: This is a #1 book, and should be read by all!
Review: This is a book that every generation should read along with the others in the series of Narnia. I read this in 3rd grade 5th grade, and in highschool! I loved it so much. A brief plot is 4 children fall into an enchanted world ruled by a and eviol queen. It's always winter, but there is no Christmas! These 4 children try to overcome the queen and bring back Spring. They win, and turn all the queen's statues into the people of Narnia once again! Then the 4 children become the rulers of Narnia for many years to come. These 4 children are are loved by the citizens of Narnia, you will see in the other novels of the series.

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Summary: An undisputed classic, but very slightly dated.
Review: It feels almost treacherous to rate this book with only 9 points. My father read the whole series out loud to us when we were children, and we loved every minute of it. In fact, I'm now reading it out loud to my fiancé, who is very taken by Mr Tumnus the faun. The book still has that magical quality to it; I can't fault the fantasy. The characters are believeable too, and yet... they have that slightly priggish air to them that English children of that era - and that class - did. One of the Narnia lines that sticks in my mind to this day describes Susan as "a bit of a wet blanket". It's very succinct, and yet this language is somehow so limiting. It fixes the four children firmly in an era and a social class which seem far more than 50 years behind us. They also become slightly predictable. Of course, that won't stop children from enjoying it, which of course is the acid test for any books of this kind. But the sometimes stilted language does make it difficult to read out loud in places. My father did it beautifully, partly because he was a wonderful reader, but also because he was brought up in that 'class' and only a little later than that time (2nd World War). Lewis can't be blamed for the breakneck pace at which the English language develops (in fact he wrote illuminating works on that very subject), but it does make his prose a little alienating. On the plus side, the Narnia series has more solid moral fibre than you will find in most children's literature these days. That is something that children instinctively respond to; it's the adults who worry about political correctness and say "life isn't that simple". Lewis gives his characters difficult situations to face, but he also gives them clear indications of how to face them. And I don't think you have to be a Christian to accept the moral world of Narnia, despite its directly Biblical structure (ie. Aslan as Christ, etc.). In brief: Lewis's language can sound dated, but his moral message and his humour are still vibrant

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Summary: If you like "The Lord of the Rings" you'll love this book!
Review: I realize, now that I'm all grown up, that fairy tales have lost the luster they once had. The myth and glamour they kindle in us seems to just fade away into a dark closet or...wardrobe. Thankfully, Mr.Lewis proves that age and youth are so closely interwoven that you just don't stop reading children's books, you begin to live them. He builds an ethical universe where acts of death, betrayal,love,heroism,and redemption, all made simple choices in a child's world to blur into the hard choices of the adult world. This book should be read by those children of 6 or 62. Read it out loud, at night, when you have the blues, or when things are going great! And maybe, just maybe, you'll meet that white stag in the snow under the lamplight leading you back home... P.Mille