Livre d'Or

I never read Narnia as a child- I read LWW and PC in my early twenties, already having been told it was an allegory. The pump having been so primed, it was obvious that it was an allegory, and not one I found very interesting.

I told my mother I was reading LWW for the first time and she seemed surprised that she hadn't given them to me as a child, since she had read them as a child, and since as a children's librarian, she was usually my pusher. But I don't think it's really all that surprising... I don't think I would have loved the books as a child, either.