The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV serial) Lucy has been lying. Peter and Susan kindly try to get Lucy to admit that it was "just a story", while Edmund makes spiteful comments like "found any new countries in the wardrobe?". A few days later, during a game of hide and seek, Lucy returns to the wardrobe and Edmund, the second youngest, and by far the most volatile of the four children, follows her. To Edmund's shock, he finds that Lucy was telling the truth about the country in the back of the wardrobe, but Lucy is nowhere to be seen when he enters Narnia. He carries on
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe wrote in a letter about stories for children: "I have tried one myself but it was, by the unanimous verdict of my friends, so bad that I destroyed it." The plot element of entering a new world through the back of a wardrobe had certainly entered Lewis's mind by 1946, when he used it to describe his first encounter with really good poetry: In August 1948, during a visit by an American writer, Chad Walsh, Lewis talked vaguely about completing a children's book he had begun "in the tradition of E. Nesbit". After this conversation not much happened until the