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From Spare Oom to War Drobe - Travels in Narnia with my nine-year-old self (Hardcover)
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From Spare Oom to War Drobe - Travels in Narnia with my nine-year-old self (Hardcover)
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** Guardian Summer Reading selection: the 50 hottest new books
everyone should read ** ** The Times: 100 best books to read for
summer 2021 ** Back in the 1960s a little girl of nine who was
deeply in love with Narnia wrote a book of short stories. Written
in spiky blue ink with various crossings-out and spelling mistakes,
Katherine Langrish's Tales of Narnia filled an old hard-cover
notebook from front to back. Some of the stories were illustrated
with dramatic, poster-painted scenes, and Katherine drew a map of
Narnia on the inside back cover. Now a celebrated adult writer of
children's and young adult's literature, Langrish has revisited C.
S. Lewis's Seven Chronicles of Narnia to explore what they mean to
her today. In From Spare Oom to War Drobe she analyses what once
enchanted her and asks whether it still has the power to do so.
Hand in hand with her nine year-old self, she traces many paths
through Lewis's thick forest of allusions not only to Christianity,
but to Plato, fairy tales, myths, legends, medieval romances,
renaissance poetry and indeed to other children's books. Here are
two very different ways of reading the Narnia stories: the adult,
informed, rational way and the passionate childish way. For
whenever children fall in love with a book they love it fiercely,
loyally, completely; and as anyone it's ever happened to will know,
it can be a transformative experience. The Foreword has been
written by award-winning writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, who
dramatised the BBC radio adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia,
and wrote Shadowlands, a biography of C. S. Lewis.
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