The Magician's Nephew The Magician's Nephew The Magician's Nephew is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Bodley Head in 1955. It is the sixth published of seven novels in "The Chronicles of Narnia" (1950–1956); it is volume one of the series in recent editions, which sequence the books according to Narnia history. Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes whose work has been retained in many later editions. The Bodley Head was a new publisher for "The Chronicles", a change from Geoffrey Bles. "The Magician's Nephew" is a prequel to the series. The middle third
The Chronicles of Narnia (TV series) the Wardrobe" was directed by Marilyn Fox, while "Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Silver Chair" were directed by Alex Kirby. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are siblings who are evacuated from London in 1940, and sent to the countryside to stay with Professor Digory Kirke because of the air raids in World War II. Soon after arriving at the Professor's house, the four children are exploring when Lucy enters a wardrobe in a spare room and finds herself in the middle of a snowy wood. She meets a faun named Mr. Tumnus, who explains