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The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis Julia Stevens Children’s Literature
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The Magician’s Nephewby C.S. Lewis
Julia StevensChildren’s Literature
Book Info
Written in 1955Genre: FantasySet in the late 19th centuryBook 1 of the Narnia series (followed
by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Book Synopsis
Diggory and Polly find themselves at Diggory’s uncle’s house
They go to an interdemensional forest by touching green rings.
They find themselves on a lifeless planet.
Evil queen comes to life
Witch gets transported back to real world, chaos ensues
Diggory, Uncle Andrew, witch, cabbie and horse get transported to the forest and then to a new world
They watch as the world is being created by a lion
Lion (Aslan) assigns certain animals to talk and recognizes an evil in his world
Subplot involving Uncle Andrew with the animals
Diggory asks Aslan to cure his mother.
Cabbie and wife are coroneted and horse grows wings.
Diggory and Polly go to retrieve an apple in return for Aslan’s help
