The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe rises, the Stone Table breaks and Aslan is restored to life. He tells Lucy and Susan that Jadis was unaware of the "deeper magic from before the dawn of time" that will resurrect an innocent killed in place of a traitor. With Lucy and Susan on his back, he hurries to the Witch's castle to restore the stone statues to life. Meanwhile, Peter and Edmund lead the Narnians against the Witch. Edmund breaks her wand, preventing her from turning more Narnians into stone, but he is seriously wounded. Aslan arrives with the former statues as reinforcements. The Narnians rout the
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that UK adults had read as children, after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". (Adults, perhaps limited to parents, ranked "Alice" and "The Lion" fifth and sixth as books the next generation should read, or their children should read during their lifetimes.) "TIME" magazine included the novel in its "All-TIME 100 Novels" (best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005). In 2003, the novel was listed at number 9 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It has also been published in 47 foreign languages. Lewis wrote that "The Narnian books are not as much allegory as supposal. Suppose there were a Narnian