The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe engravings on the wardrobe, when it is a simple one in the novel, and the Professor's surprise and intrigue when Peter and Susan mention Lucy's discovery in the wardrobe. When Lewis wrote the novel, it was the first of the series and the back-story later outlined by the subsequent books in the series did not exist. Additionally in the novel, the father of the Pevensie children is in London with their mother, but in the film, their father is fighting in the war as Lucy states to Mr. Tumnus when they first meet in Narnia. Weta Workshop head Richard Taylor
Adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia Fox and Walden Media co-produced "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", released in December 2010. A fourth film, "The Silver Chair", is currently in the works, with the Mark Gordon Company producing. On October 3, 2018, the C.S. Lewis Company announced that Netflix had acquired the rights to new film and television series adaptations of the Narnia books. The Chronicles of Narnia are all available on audiobook, read by Andrew Sachs. These were published by Chivers Children's' Audio Books. In 1979, Caedmon Records released abridged versions of all seven books on records and cassettes, read by