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W e had so much fun writing this book! If it werent for the following people, this book would have lacked proper grammar, coherent themes, and a very snazzy Turkish Delight quiz. What we are trying to say is we are so thankful for the inquisitive, irreplaceable people who kept us in line and in a very strict behavioral program.

Of course, the behavioral program should be credited to Benjamin Pyykkonen. Without Ben, we would still be trying to assemble Lindas wardrobe, two children would have lacked supervision during the writing phase, and the laundry would still be piled up.

Also, thanks are offered to the youth group of Church of the Great Shepherd in Wheaton, Illinois, for participating in the unofficial Turkish Delight survey. Your responses were invaluable and we are very thankful that no one spit out the treats in our sight. (You mustve taught them right, Dane!)

To the people who helped research flowers and tested quizzes. Stan and Gia Washington, Larissa Pyykkonen, and Linda Van Dine, thank you for avoiding your work to do ours.

With much gratitude to the staff of Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College (Heidi, Sean, and Jake) for their support of our explorations in the C. S. Lewis section. Special thanks to whoever put all the books back after our visits (of course, we would have done it ourselves if we were allowed).

To George Kacena, who happened to show up when we needed him most. Thank you for letting us use you as a reference for entrance into the Wade Center and also suggesting Lyle Dorsetts name (oh, hope you dont mind, Lyle). We are also thankful to Lyle Dorsett for his interest and knowledge of C. S. Lewis, which was inspirational to us all.

Thankful are we also for Wheaton Public Library for their books on topics from tea parties to wolves to moss. We are grateful that our weighty checkouts were not condemned and they still accept our library cards.

Panera Bread in Bloomingdale, Illinois, is worthy of many thanks, too. As we sipped soup and ate cookies, this book took shape while sitting among the aroma of their freshly baked breads.

Thank you to Giles Anderson and Marc Resnick for giving us this opportunity to show off the many fun layers of C. S. Lewiss masterpiece, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

We are also greatly thankful for the encouragement and support of the following people: Geoff Allen, the Bankers, Marilyn Brenner, the Brummunds, Vicki Cairns, Alice Costabile, John and Danielle Crilly, the Curtises, Donn & Kathleen Czegus, Danilo Diedrichs, Anne Goldsmith, Becky Hanselman, Mark & Becky Nesbitt, Sile ni Chionna, Maralee Parker, Paavo & Darlene Pyykkonen, Andy Saur, Marlise Schiltz, John Schultz, Betty Swanberg, Preston & Susie Washington, Linda Willet, and Colleen Yang.

With utmost respect we thank C. S. Lewis for the childlike heart and brilliant intellect that created an unforgettable story of talking beasts, lovable children, and an untamable lion.

Thank you Lord, Jesus Christ, for being our sacrificial lamb, the Lion of Judah.

JAMES STUART BELL is the owner of Whitestone Communications, a literary development agency. He was Director of Religious Publishing at Doubleday. He has written and compiled over forty books, including the best-selling Complete Idiots Guide to the Bible. He lives in the western suburbs of Chicago.

CARRIE PYYKKONEN has degrees in early childhood education and geography. She became interested in Narnia as a young child and has ever since loved fantasy stories. She lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with her husband, two children, and a cat named Sassie. Her interests range from embarrassing her family while dancing in public to partaking in weekly pizza and movie nights.

LINDA WASHINGTON has written several books for kids, including Just Plain Mel and Gotta Have God (with Jeanette Dall). She lives in Carol Stream, Illinois, and often mooches meals off the Pyykkonens. Also, she likes having serious discussions with her nephew, Samuel, about Pokmon and other Gameboy Advance games.

When she was a child, she read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in serial form and loved it. Who knew that she would grow up (some would say otherwise) to co-author a book about it?

Four Kids and a War(drobe)

In 195964 (aaaaaaaaages ago), a weekly half-hour TV show called The Twilight Zone , created by an innovative (an adjective meaning capable of making something new) man named Rod Serling, was in production. (Reruns are shown on the SciFi channel and are on DVD.) Wondering what thats got to do with LWW ? Plenty. Sit tight and youll find out.

In each Twilight Zone episode, various characters would find themselves in strange worlds or in situations extremely different from the reality they were used to (unless they were used to being chased by maniacal talking dolls or zombielike neighbors). Whenever they discovered something out of the ordinary, the narrator of the show, Rod Serling, would suddenly pop up and announce that the character had crossed over into the twilight zone. (This was another strange occurrence. After all, when was the last time a narrator popped up in your living room and began discussing your life?) Then the eerie theme music would play ( Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo ).

If youve read LWW, you know that a girl named Lucy Pevensie was the first person in her family to cross over into a twilight zone known as Narnia. (Check out All About Lucy at the end of the chapter.) How did she get there? Through a wardrobe.(Give yourself minus 50 points if you said an airplane or any other form of transportation.)

Imagine opening your closet door and discovering a completely different world beyond your clothes. (Have you checked whats beyond your closet lately? Go on. Give it a try. We dare you.)

TA-DUH!

Lucy and C. S. Lewis

If you read the letter on the dedication page of LWW, you already know that there was a girl named Lucy in C. S. Lewiss life. But did you know that she was the daughter of Owen Barfield, a friend from his days as a student at Oxford University? Barfield was an author, philosopher, and a member of the Inklings writers group to which C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings) belonged. And no, the real Lucy didnt discover Narnia, except through the pages of C. S. Lewiss book.

If youre back from checking out your closet, lets get back to the fictional Lucy. We first meet Lucy and her siblings Peter, Susan, and Edmund as they arrive at the country home of Professor Kirke (a man curiously like C. S. Lewis) during World War II, having traveled all the way from London.

Lucy, Peter, Susan, and Edmund didnt have much choice about living with the Professor. They had to live there. Imagine having to live with total strangersstrangers who were told they had to take you in. How would you feel? This is the situation Lucy and her siblings found themselves in. Little did they know that the Professors home would be the key to some of the greatestadventures of their lives! It all began when they decided to explore the many rooms of the Professors country house. (For exploration ideas or tips on what to do for a rainy day, see the games at the end of the chapter.) Thats when Lucy discovered the wardrobe in a spare room. (Wondering what a wardrobe is? Look for And Now, a Word About Wardrobes later in the chapter. No need to thank us.)

Another girl went through a wardrobe in a spare room and found herself in a strange place. Her name was Amabel (thats rightAmabel, not Anabel or Annabelle) and shes the main character in The Aunt and Amabel, one of the short stories in The Magic World by E. Nesbit (published in 1912). (For more on E. Nesbit, see chapter 5c.)

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