The Book Lightwalker Files

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7

The Last Battle

Over the past three months, we’ve been looking at each of C.S. Lewis’ stories, known collectively as the Chronicles of Narnia. Today’s entry finishes the series, bringing it full circle. Whereas The Magician’s Nephew showed Narnia’s beginnings, The Last Battle explains how it ends.

It introduces us to two ta...

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6

The Horse and His Boy

Like most people, I love horses. I didn’t grow up on a farm or a ranch, so I’ve never owned one nor cared for one. But I have ridden one several separate times in my life. The feel of those powerful muscles under me, even at a steady trot, is an experience which will always stay with me. Watching them gallop with flowing mane, I can feel their magnificent display of...

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5

The Magician’s Nephew

Of all the Narnia stories, this one is my favorite. I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing how The Magician’s Nephew plays out on the big screen, complete with CGI effects, because I’m utterly fascinated with imagining how God created the Universe, based on the Genesis account. I have even considered writing a semi-fictional account of the Bible s...

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4

The Silver Chair

In the last scene of the last movie, after Eustace Scrubb returns from the Dawn Treader with his cousins, his mother calls up to him, saying Jill Pole is here to see him. What a great segue into this story! Unfortunately, the latest news says The Magician’s Nephew is the next one they’ll make into a movie. As much as I’m looking forward to Magician...

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Quest stories are among the most popular type of plot around. Readers and viewers love to accompany a likable character on his long, always arduous journey to find something. In Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the questor is King Caspian X, who as prince was at the center of the last Narnia story (

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2

Prince Caspian

No youth should go through this. Raised in the palace—tutored first by his nurse, then by the elderly Professor Cornelius—young Caspian seems to have it made. His father King Caspian IX has died in his sleep, and his father’s brother is ruling until Caspian is old enough. What he doesn’t realize is that Uncle Miraz had murdered his father, and as soon as Miraz ...

The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Of all the Narnia stories, this one is the most familiar because it’s the first, so it has the most versions. In a way, I hesitate to talk about a plot everyone knows, but I’ll run through it anyway.

During height of the London Blitz, the parents of Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie send them to the English countryside, to st...

Over the next three months, I’m planning to post seven entries about The Chronicles of Narnia, the classic fantasy series by C.S. Lewis. I’ve read all the books, and I’ve seen all three of the Walden Media movies that have come out so far. Each movie added to and, in my opinion, vastly improved the original story. Even the additions maintained the spirit of Lewis’ vision. Not many movies would get that kind of endorsement. Of necessity, the last four will have t...