Two children become friends over the summer and decide to go exploring in the attic crawl space between the townhouses. Instead of going to the empty house, they find themselves entering into Digory's uncles study who gives them magical rings. Being tricked by his uncle, they find themselves in the world in between worlds. Before finding their way back to their own world, they find their way to another. A dead world where the only people "living" are sleeping. They wake one woman, the most beautiful and terrifying of them all and she comes back with them to London. Jadis, Witch Queen, in the middle of London. Digory and Polly were able to get her back to the place between worlds and found themselves in a new world that was just created by Aslan the Lion. Narnia is created and Jadis is terrified.
Knowing that this is a metaphor for Jesus Christ and Satan and even the Garden of Eden, I liked it. The beginning of the story was very different from what I expected and the similarities were not so in your face to be hideously obnoxious.
There were times that were rather humorous and the fact that I could read a chapter to my son within 20 minutes to a half hour makes for good bedtime stories.
This is one that I might not be super excited to jump into again, but I'm ready for the rest of the series.
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