I bought this book, The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, in August of 2006 during one of the sales at PowerBooks. It is a hardbound book and is a compilation of all the seven Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. I think Z still has all the books from when we were kids. They are all paperbacks and at least twenty years old. I figured if the boys were going to read the book, then a new (less likely to cause asthma) hardbound copy would be better for all of us.
After I got it, I read the book and managed to get one of the boys to read it, too. (Am sure you can guess which of my handsome sons met Aslan in his spare time.)
After we finished reading, I put the book on one of our bookshelves. It stayed there for a long time until the lights went out yesterday afternoon.
As you can imagine, when there is a brown-out then there is no television, no computer, no electric fan. MyGirl decided she wanted to check out her old toys. She settled on playing with Play-Doh in the other room. I decided I wanted to read her a book, so I pulled out the Narnia Chronicles, a chair and a fan for us.
I sat down beside her and read to her as she flattened and cut her Play-Doh into different shapes. MyGirl listened intently as I read to her about Digory and Polly, Uncle Andrew and Jadis.
It was getting dark, not to mention warm. Fortunately, the electricity came back on and we were able to read a couple more chapters.
I don't know when she will finish The Magician's Nephew and whether she will get all the way to The Last Battle, all I know is that going through the first couple of chapters together is always a good way to start.
After I got it, I read the book and managed to get one of the boys to read it, too. (Am sure you can guess which of my handsome sons met Aslan in his spare time.)
After we finished reading, I put the book on one of our bookshelves. It stayed there for a long time until the lights went out yesterday afternoon.
As you can imagine, when there is a brown-out then there is no television, no computer, no electric fan. MyGirl decided she wanted to check out her old toys. She settled on playing with Play-Doh in the other room. I decided I wanted to read her a book, so I pulled out the Narnia Chronicles, a chair and a fan for us.
I sat down beside her and read to her as she flattened and cut her Play-Doh into different shapes. MyGirl listened intently as I read to her about Digory and Polly, Uncle Andrew and Jadis.
It was getting dark, not to mention warm. Fortunately, the electricity came back on and we were able to read a couple more chapters.
I don't know when she will finish The Magician's Nephew and whether she will get all the way to The Last Battle, all I know is that going through the first couple of chapters together is always a good way to start.
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We did it! We finished The Magician's Nephew yesterday. Since MyGirl knows the story of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, we skipped that and have opted to proceed with third book.
FYI: As far as I know, we *never* had those books until Mindy's friend lent them to her. I was fascinated by the picture of Fledge, and some time later, drew it into my sketchpad (or tried, anyway).
Sometime after, we bought a few of them, but it wasn't a complete set, just maybe 3 or 4. Imagine my pique!
To add insult to injury, the cover illustrations were VASTLY inferior to the previous set.
But I read them sometimes anyway, of course.
Z
To illustrate (presuming links are allowed here.
THIS is not exactly, but pretty close to the cover I first saw for The Magician's Nephew. THIS is the picture of the ones we got after.
What a difference!!!
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Or try this one, it also has The Last Battle.
I remember those covers. Yes, I agree with you... what a difference!
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