The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are sent from wartime London to stay in a large country house. There Lucy finds that a wardrobe leads into Narnia, a snowy land where it is always winter and never Christmas, ruled by the White Witch. The children are drawn into a struggle between her power and the great lion Aslan, whose return is whispered about. The novel is the best known of the Narnia books. It combines fairy tale, adventure and moral seriousness, and explores loyalty, betrayal and forgiveness in a way that readers of all ages have enjoyed.