In what order?
May 29, 2008
An interesting debate has been occurring on the Read Roger blog, the Horn Book editor’s ‘rants and raves’ as he puts it.
The Horn Book Journal has for a long time listed C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia not in the order they were published but in reading order, thus putting The Magician’s Nephew at the head of the list. Many other sources do the same.
But protests from readers have forced a change - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) now leads the charge, with The Magician’s Nephew (1955) sitting where it was published, between The Horse and His Boy (1954) and The Last Battle (1956).
The comments that have led to the change in Horn Book’s policy make interesting reading.
With Prince Caspian about to hit cinema sceens, some readers will be finding this series for the first time. But in what order?
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