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 Witch and the Wardrobe" was complete by the end of March 1949. Lucy Barfield received it by the end of May. When on 16 October 1950 Geoffrey Bles in London published the first edition, three new "chronicles", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Horse and His Boy", had also been completed. Lewis's publisher, Geoffrey Bles, allowed him to choose the illustrator for the novel and the "Narnia" series. Lewis chose Pauline Baynes, possibly based on J. R. R. Tolkien's recommendation. Baynes had greatly impressed Tolkien with her illustrations for his "Farmer Giles of Ham" (1949). However,