mass market paperback, 186 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 1987 by Scholastic.
When Lucy tells her brothers and sister that she found a magic land inside the old wardrobe, they don't believe her.
Then one afternoon, looking for a place to hide from the grown-ups, they all climb into the old wardrobe...
In this first book of the Chronicles of Narnia, Peter, edmund, Susan, and Lucy discover the land of Narnia and set out to break the spell of an evil witch. (back cover)
"Cool premise (a worldrobe!), but everything resolves awfully suddenly. Not to mention the human-worship, and ... 'He's not the Messiah, he's a very scary lion!'
I happened to rather enjoy this book as a child, despite being an atheist. Sure, it has some flaws (especially in the later books if I recall), and it has a lot of very obvious references to religion, but I genuinely don't get people who need books and their authors to agree with them on every single point. What's the point of hopping into other worlds if they only resemble what you personally think the world is like? Go read a nonfiction book if that's what you want.
