Morning Time in Narnia

I took this picture last spring as my youngest son and I were moving towards the end of the school year – and the end of my homeschooling career. He sweetly agreed to indulge me in a final read-aloud of the Narnia books.

We did, of course, read them in publication order. Yes, that is the right way to read them — offhand comments by the author notwithstanding. The C. S. Lewis blog offers some very good reasons, along with some links to a few other more scholarly sources.

One of the great schisms of our time goes hardly noticed by the press. But it threatens the very foundation of the order of things…well at least of Narnian things… (Okay, it’s not threatening at all and probably not very important except to C. S. Lewis fanatics like me.) And we find it very important—so much so that a number of Lewis scholars have responded to the issue in print, making my offering just one more addition to the mix. Read the rest at the C. S. Lewis blog