The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)

I was wondering at first why this first installment of the Narnia Chronicles wasn't made into a movie. After reading however, I understood why they didn't bother showing this story first before The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

It is indeed, a children's story. More like a fairy tale that could match the Mother Goose stories. I thought it was a novel; something like the Harry Potter series or even the Lord of the Rings books, but it was different.

It tells a story in the Point of View of the Author. It was nice reading the book and feeling as if he was really telling you the story himself, dropping all the formality and carrying on with narrating like he really wanted the readers to understand.

The Magician's Nephew told the story of how Narnia began and how the hell was there a Wardrobe that leads to the city in the house where the Pevensies have stayed during the war.

I never quite understood when I watched the movie. All I doubted was that Professor Digory Kirke, who owned the house knew about the wardrobe. I never knew that he was the one who had the wardrobe created in the first book.

It was fun, I was laughing most of the time while reading the book because of the animals in Narnia and because of Digory's Uncle Andrew. As the world of Narnia began (just like how our own world began according to the Bible), creatures all around the city start to become aware of their existence and the existence of the other worlds and creatures, including the humans, or as what Aslan called the Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve.

So now I understood why it wasn't made into a movie for The Magician's Nephew only told the story of how Narnia began, and how that single wardrobe brought Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy to the other world apart from their own.