The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis had written fourteen years earlier in his alliterative poem "The Planets": This resonance is a central component of the case, promoted chiefly by Oxford University scholar Michael Ward, for the seven "Chronicles" having been modelled upon the seven classical astrological planets, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" upon Jupiter. On 10 March 1949 Roger Lancelyn Green dined with Lewis at Magdalen College. After the meal Lewis read two chapters from his new children's story to Green. Lewis asked Green's opinion of the tale and Green said that he thought it was good. The manuscript of "The Lion, the
The Horse and His Boy The Horse and His Boy The Horse and His Boy is a novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1954. Of the seven novels that comprise "The Chronicles of Narnia" (1950–1956), "The Horse and His Boy" was the fifth to be published; it is also one of four of the novels that Lewis finished writing before the first book in the series had been published. In recent editions of "The Chronicles of Narnia" that are sequenced according to the history of the fictional land of Narnia, "The Horse and His Boy" is the third book