When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. Lewis wrote: I think I agree with your order for reading the books more than with your mother's. The publishers claim, unconvincingly, that this reordering reflects Lewis’ preference, based on a letter Lewis wrote to a young American fan who preferred the chronological order (against his mother’s preference for the publication order). This order is basically chronological, shifting two books, The Magician’s Nephew and The Horse and His Boy, so that they appear, respectively, before and after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, resulting in this order: Starting in 1994, the Chronicles’ current publishers embraced a different numbering system, the one you’re familiar with.
I still have an old boxed edition of the Chronicles that has each volume numbered this way: Whatever the deficiencies of the Narnia movies to date, at least the filmmakers did one thing right: They followed the original publication order, which is how many or most editions numbered them until about 20 years ago. Shouldn’t they have made The Magician’s Nephew before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Horse and His Boy before Prince Caspian? Why are they doing The Silver Chair next? The movie order doesn’t make sense to me.
I’m wondering why they made the movies in a different order than the numbering of the books. There’s only one right order to read the Narnia books Why the chronological numbering used by the Chronicles’ publishers today is a travesty SDG Original source: National Catholic RegisterĪ reader writes: Thanks for your article on the Narnia movies.
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