It’s been quite some time since I’ve visited Narnia. I tend to give Disney’s 2005 adaptation of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” a watch every Christmas season—it is a Christmas movie after all. I’ve loved the film since seeing it in theaters. It is a faithful representation of the book, though not quite the same.
My wife and I have been to Narnia several times over the past few months while on long road trips. While the Pevensie children first entered Narnia from the “land of Spare Oom” and the “city of War Drobe,” we returned through “Blue’s Tooth” by way of “Ford’s Edge.”
As we looked for a way to pass the time in the car, we came across free audiobooks of “The Chronicles of Narnia” on Spotify. Pressing play on “The Magician’s Nephew,” the first book chronologically in the Narnia series, we were taken back to C.S….