Through the Wardrobe

To Lucy Barfield

My dear Lucy,

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it, I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound, you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be

your affectionate Godfather,
C. S. Lewis

If you are not too young or too old to enjoy the Narnia Chronicles, come out and invite your friends to "Reading Narnia with C. S. Lewis." Professor Leland Ryken will speak on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Bryan Glass will perform a dramatic reading from the chapter "The Triumph of the Witch."

It will be 7 pm, this Thursday at the church. We are still deciding what room. Perhaps the sanctuary if we think enough will attend.