The Magician's Nephew indefinitely. On 1 October 2013, The C.S. Lewis Company announced that they had entered into an agreement with The Mark Gordon Company to jointly develop and produce "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair", ultimately deciding to continue releasing the films to mirror the novel series' publication order. The decision thus places the work on "The Magician's Nephew" film on an indefinite hiatus. In 2008, the BBC produced a 10-part version read by Jane Lapotaire and signed by Jean St Clair wearing different Narnia like clothes in British Sign Language, airing on BBC 2. T.M. Wagner of SF Reviews said
The Chronicles of Narnia Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Horse and His Boy", were already complete, they were not released immediately at that time, but instead appeared (along with "The Silver Chair") one at a time in each of the subsequent years (1951–1954). The last two books ("The Magician's Nephew" and "The Last Battle") were published in the United Kingdom originally by The Bodley Head in 1955 and 1956. In the United States, the publication rights were first owned by Macmillan Publishers, and later by HarperCollins. The two issued both hardcover and paperback editions of the series during their tenure