The Book Shelf: The Magician's Nephew

The Magician's Nephew

C.S. Lewis

112 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Digory and Polly became friends mainly because it was a cold, wet summer. Not being able to play outside, they took to exploring indoors. Polly took Digory up into the attic (a place she called her smuggler's cave) where they discovered that all of the houses along that street were connected by the smuggler's cave. They got the idea that they could explore the house on the other side of Digory's which stood empty. However, they didn't go quite far enough and ended up in the study of Digory's uncle who tricked Polly into picking up one of his rings and vanishing into thin air. Using one of the other rings, Digory goes after Polly to bring her back. They find themselves in a wood between worlds and decide to go exploring instead of going home. They end up in a dying world name Chan and meet a witch who follows them back to their own world. The witch tries to enslave London but Digory and Polly manage to get her out of their world and into a brand new one. They meet Aslan, the Lion who created all worlds, and must help him restore balance to his new world after they brought in the first evil.

Other books in the Series:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Horse and His Boy

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Last Battle

The Original Purpose

This blog actually originated as a class assignment. The first "younger reading" class I took had each student create a different note card for every book they read. The note card was to have all of the information on the book as well as a brief summary and our reaction to what we read. With my children's literature class being the second class that required a similar assignment, I decided that a blog was more practical than trying to find some place to store several hundred 3x5 notecards. Thus the birth of "The Book Shelf." I hope you enjoy my insights.