

This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. The Lion all began with a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. Lewis described the origin of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in an essay entitled "It All Began with a Picture":
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The series was first referred to as The Chronicles of Narnia by fellow children's author Roger Lancelyn Green in March 1951, after he had read and discussed with Lewis his recently completed fourth book The Silver Chair, originally entitled Night under Narnia. Lewis was awarded the 1956 Carnegie Medal for The Last Battle, the final book in the saga. The original illustrator, Pauline Baynes, created pen and ink drawings for the Narnia books that are still used in the editions published today. Lewis did not write the books in the order in which they were originally published, nor were they published in their current chronological order of presentation. The Magician's Nephew, the penultimate book to be published, but the last to be written, was completed in 1954. 11 Adaptations of The Chronicles of NarniaĪlthough Lewis originally conceived what would become The Chronicles of Narnia in 1939 (the picture of a Faun with parcels in a snowy wood has a history dating to 1914), he did not finish writing the first book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe until 1949.10.2 Accusations of gender stereotyping.7.2 Influences from mythology and cosmology.3.3 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952).

3.2 Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951).

