In grade three this old man came into our classroom daily for a couple of weeks and read us 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe'. He obviously had done this for years because he had all kinds of stories to go along with the reading that painted a vivid picture in our minds of life in England during wartime and the land of Narnia itself.
I was one who was heavily influenced and impressed. There was a forest with trails that we all walked to get home and it was irresistible to not 'play' Narnia all the way home. I was surprised our parents never thought we were abducted from those woods when were were hours getting home.
That summer I read the whole series of Narnia books and they remain among my favorites today. I am always taken back to that time when I hear them mentioned or see that ratty old paperback collection on my library shelves. When my cousin's kid got married this summer she remembered me for giving her a collection one Christmas when she was in her 'reading phase' as kid.
For that reason I love this image of one of my favorite characters 'Reepecheap' who has a huge role in my favorite book of the series 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' (which would be the name of ANY boat I ever owned). He's the bravest mouse in all Narnia and I love his little sword. And I do meam 'sword' you mouse pervs. How can he be effective a warrior as such a tiny creature with such a tiny weapon? It's all in the attitude!
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I went to a lot of trouble to not take my grand daughter to the movie. Now I gotta read the book?
That is a seriously beautiful rendering of the characters. I would so put that on my wall.
actually thats n meme which story read to you at school touched or affected you for the rest of your life, I remember warm afternoons last lesson of day listening sleepily to an old nun reading The Turf Cutters Donkey to us. I think we were all in a semi dream state which made it so evocative. I was delighted to find a copy recently but was struck by the level of Irish colloquiallisms I don't think kids would understand it today and wondered what was it about my era of education that we did.
We were actually educated back in the day. I really believe that.
The ending of the Dawn Treader. That book made me cry, seriously.
Reepicheep.
Greatest. Hero. Ever.
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