printed on high quality paper and filled with colour illustrations by Pauline Baynes. It also has a beautiful map of Narnia and the surrounding countries on the cover which marks a number of key locations from the stories.

I enjoyed reading these stories much more as a child when I was unaware of the religious messages. Rereading them as an adult, I found them overbearing and they interfered with my ability to lose myself in what was happening. Still, the tales have not altogether lost their appeal for me. C.S. Lewis has a wonderful fondness for people and a sympathy for human nature and its various heady emotions and foibles. His characters are lodged forever in my heart.