Chronicles of Narnia

I was raised on the Chronicles of Narnia, both from having the books read aloud to me by my father and from watching the old BBC mini-series based on them, but until I was an adult I only actually knew three of the books: The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It wasn't until I was in my 20s, and devouring every C.S. Lewis book I could get my hands on, that I finally read the rest of the series. And if you had asked me as a child who my...

This article was originally published in The Catholic News Herald of the diocese of Charlotte. I never tire of revisiting certain authors and books, especially C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia. In fact, the older I get, the more I find to love in these books. It makes me appreciate the dedication that Lewis wrote for the first book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” in which he tells his goddaughter that “someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ...